Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Though mean-spirited, the jester Rigoletto — Verdi’s hapless, vengeful hunchback — wins our hearts as the outsider whom a ...

Rushdie's tale of love and revenge has made its way to the stage. It premieres tonight at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Salman Rushdie's 'Shalimar The Clown' Is Now An Opera Shalimar the Clown is ...

Ask the average Seattleite what they think of when they hear the word pagliacci and they’re almost guaranteed to answer “pizza”—or, maybe, “class action lawsuit.” One hundred years ago, though, the ...

It’s all fun and games ’til somebody’s cheating ass gets stabbed through the heart. That, more or less, is the moral of Pagliacci, Ruggero Leoncavallo’s iconic one-hit wonder of an opera. There’s no ...

It’s not easy to express an Eastern culture in a Western art form like opera, but it can be done. Puccini succeeded in “Madame Butterfly” and “Turandot” by incorporating Asian melodies and tonalities.

"The Black Clown," adapted from Langston Hughes' poem of the same name, is full of music and meaning. "A 75-minute blaze through 300 years of American history," says Davóne Tines, Co-Creator and ...

(Opera West is not to be confused with Opera Southwest. The latter is a 50-year-old Albuquerque-based company performing an adventurous repertory. The former is a young Santa Fe organization focused, ...

Although she's starring in one of opera's most memorable tragedies, Bonnie Frauenthal is happily returning to her college town — even if she has to fly halfway around the world to get back to Oklahoma ...