SAN FRANCISCO — Opera and Twitter: Could any two vehicles for human expression be more diametrically opposed? And yet they kind of go together, as I found out this week while live-tweeting the San ...

They'll face such daunting issues as the prohibitive cost of producing opera and a severe drop in donations that "caused us to press the pause button," says William Cole, the company's executive ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Opera stars Plácido Domingo, Karita Mattila and Danielle de Niese will ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Like nearly all American opera companies struggling through the Great ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It is a constant challenge in opera: How do you breathe new life into ultra-familiar masterpieces like “The Barber of Seville” and “The Marriage of Figaro”?

Fulton joined the show in May 1960. Don Hasting was introduced to viewers as Nancy's youngest son, Bob Hughes, five months later. Both remain central players on "As the World Turns." "There is so much ...

You may not be able to sing. In fact you may not know an aria from an arpeggio! But that doesn’t mean that you can’t tread the boards at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. They need extras. In the opera ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS — If remaking yourself at age 50 sounds to you like a good plan, you’ll appreciate Lake George Opera’s mid-life transformation. Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2011, the local ...

*This truly excellent piece, which is part of a long and forthcoming academic debate, is framed as the "survival" of soap operas because the participants WANT soaps to survive. *But, well, look at the ...