Opera is a spectacle that can be glorious and delightful or a painful bore depending on how you approach it and how much background you have to appreciate it. Larry Mantle talks with opera and music ...

Sure, times are bad. I myself am wondering how much the stimulus package will stimulate food onto my table. But the only way to get through tough times is to laugh. Which is why I go to the opera. You ...

Life’s most sublime lessons are frequently illustrated (literally and symbolically) in cartoons. The concept is hardly novel. One such narrative, originating from a comic strip more than 80 years ago ...

One thing I firmly believe about my job is simply this: if you're going to dish it out, as I occasionally do, you have to be able to take it. In putting together my column for this past Sunday I ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Chicago-based opera singer Dorian McCall is returning to Washington High School this month to provide free vocal lessons to students. McCall, a baritone singer, is providing two weeks ...

LONDON — Depending on whom you ask, director Katie Mitchell is either a guiding light or a destructive force of the British stage. Although she mostly works abroad now, her staging of the new opera ...

Rob Holter’s students recently performed a scene inspired by, but not actually in, Puccini’s opera “Madama Butterfly.” Part of the group had roles in the faux opera and, after getting a crash course ...

The actress previously said she spent seven months in vocal training in order to portray opera legend Maria Callas Angelina Jolie faced challenges finding her singing voice for her role in Maria. In a ...

CHICAGO (AP) – It turns out lawyers and opera singers have more in common than booming voices and a love of melodrama. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is among the jurists who have looked ...