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 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 ...

"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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Actors Fund announced today that Quantum Leap Productions will present "Riders ...

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 ...

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Under the stage direction of Scott Skiba and music direction of Susan Davenny Wyner, Opera Western Reserve will present the Giuseppe Verdi opera at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Powers Auditorium. Composed by ...

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 ...

Opera Western Reserve production director David Vosburgh sees the primary role of the opera company as educational. “We take opera to the schools,” he said. “We use students at YSU (Youngstown State ...

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, ...

Throughout his life, Ennio Morricone felt shunned by the classical music world. But these days his pop-culture cachet isn’t such a drawback.