Ten-year-old Mason Cole-Schweizer was cast against type as the antagonistic Dr. Bartolo in Rossini's comedic opera, "The Barber of Seville." But the cherubic blond with freckles rose to the occasion, ...

Utilizing music from Mozart, Offenbach, Verdi and Donizetti with easily-understood lyrics in English John Davies one-hour adaptation of "Pinocchio" is the ideal introduction to opera for young people.

KEARNEY - The first- and third-graders filed into the music room eyeing the man with the guitar and banjo. "Teaching kindergartners, I learned it's important to watch kids while playing," he said ...

It didn’t take long for performers from the Salt Marsh Opera to get an audience of 900 fifth and sixth grade students involved in their production. They simply walked up the aisles of Woodstock ...

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Shana Blake Hill's introduction to opera didn't exactly enthrall her. "My parents were great opera fans and I hated it for many years," says Hill, 31, of Los Angeles. "Mainly because they were ...

Darrell Hoemann/UI Lyric Theatre Sharp-ears played by Lisa Buhelos^ and Fox played by Michaela Wright^ during a rehearsal of Little Sharp Ears in the Tryon Festival Theatre at Krannert Center f in ...

3:43 p.m. Nov. 8, 2024: An earlier version of this article misstated the title of Yuval Sharon’s book as “A New Philosophy of Art.” The correct title is “A New Philosophy of Opera.” If Los Angeles has ...