Nine men and nine women are needed to perform as extras in a March production of "The Handmaid's Tale" at the Detroit Opera ...

Imagine a cocktail-drinking, cigarette-smoking Don Draper as Figaro. By his side is his betrothed, Susanna, dressed and coifed as Betty Draper. LSU Opera Director Dugg McDonough envisioned it, and now ...

Hopelessness and redemption are among the themes painted in Ozarks Lyric Opera's upcoming production that premieres this weekend. Ozarks Lyric Opera presents "Fidelio," Ludwig van Beethoven's only ...

American opera may not often be “pretty,” in the conventional sense — full of sweeping orchestral passages, irresistibly tuneful arias and triumphal choruses. But at its best, American opera is ...

There is nothing I find more exciting than opening night at the opera. As a former opera singer, I can speak from experience that this elation is shared equally among those on- and off-stage. There is ...

The release of the organ repossession action flick Repo Men has some crying “copycat.” Including Repo! The Opera director Darren Bousman, who claims the projects ...

An Argentina-based yoga group sexually exploited vulnerable women it called “geishas” to get money and influence from wealthy and powerful men around the world, including opera star Placido Domingo, ...

When he finished his first major novel — “In Dubious Battle” — John Steinbeck’s editors crossed their fingers for another epic. What the novelist delivered instead was a thin novella called “Of Mice ...

The scene is a clearing in some northern California woods, late one night in the 1930s. The sound of sirens shatters the air; searchlights erratically disrupt the A figure suddenly bursts into the ...

This is a preview of the John McWhorter newsletter, which is reserved for Times subscribers. Sign up to get it in your inbox twice a week. There was an opera written in the 1950s about rich Black ...

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