The Amarillo Opera is putting a western twist on a classic tale including love, fate, revenge and the abuse of power in Verdi's "Rigoletto," set to be performed in the Globe-News Center for the ...

1888 Durand’s Opera House was built, originally as a one-story building that housed a stove and a hardware store. 1891 The retail space was converted into an opera house, with the addition of a rear ...

"The Legend of the White Snake" is one of the most famous Chinese tales. The story of a young scholar bewitched by a beautiful woman who is really a powerful white-snake demon has given rise to ...

BEIJING – On his first attempt, Nicholas Brownlee manages to spit out the sound "shee." His teacher patiently shakes her head. "It's not 'shee,' it's 'xi,'" she says, pronouncing something close to ...

Western operas rarely tackle Chinese themes. The notable exception is Giacomo Puccini's Turandot, which portrays a cunning princess in imperial Peking and has a score tinged with the nation's ...

More than three years into Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, many Western cultural institutions that had distanced themselves from Russian artists as a gesture of solidarity with Ukraine are ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Opera Colorado gives new meaning to the term, “spaghetti Western,” with a hilarious, thoroughly entertaining production of “Don Pasquale” that moves the ...

As multidimensional as is the landscape of the Southwest that so attracted Zane Grey, so too is the documentary that chronicles the creation of an epic opera, based on one of his most famous novels, ...

Kentucky Opera brings rarely performed Puccini work to Louisville. The films of Italian director Sergio Leone influenced the design of this opera production. "It sounds so much like those big John ...

The company will mount what is being billed as the first-ever Western opera, a piece the company commissioned based on Zane Grey’s seminal novel “Riders of the Purple Sage.” It is the first time in ...

Opera Santa Barbara (OSB) will present Georges Bizet’s Doctor Miracle, 6 p.m. Friday, March 22, through Sunday, March 24, at Center Stage Theatre. Pacific Opera Project’s Josh Shaw returns to direct ...