For more than a year, opera maestro Peter Mark has gone on about jewel-box productions. And all year he’s had to explain, over and over, what a jewel-box opera is. Local opera fans finally have an ...

Lights along the wall cast shadows across the auditorium. The soft-cushioned red chairs stand in silent rows, directing one's attention toward the curtained stage of the King Opera House. A beautiful ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Mark Trevorrow does this thing when he's being his all-acrylic crooner Bob Downe where he starts a song in a high register and then ...

ALBAWABA - Opera houses in the Arab world have long been seen as symbols of sophistication and cultural refinement, offering audiences the finest performances. From the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo, ...

I attended the Boulder Opera production of Handel’s Orlando April 5. The story was silly. The size of the audience was disappointingly small (it was Easter), but the voices and the musicality were ...

It is often the case that when a county was originally created by the Legislature a county seat was arbitrarily assigned as a place holder allowing residents to later vote on where to locate their ...

During my stewardship as owner of the Civic Opera building, I did not participate in the discussions that arose from time to time regarding the possibility and advisability of constructing a new ...

As Chicago`s presenter of unusual operas in English, Chicago Opera Theater is quite used to diving down into the operatic repertoire and emerging with its hands full of pearls. This new production of ...