Who says the story is everything in opera? In the Spanish-language opera “Maria de Buenos Aires,” composer Astor Piazzolla and librettist Horacio Ferrer offer only the barest outline of a plot: A ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago will Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruz’s El último sueño de Frida y Diego. What unfolds is a dreamlike journey through memory, passion, and everything they created together — ...

Inside a brightly lit rehearsal hall tucked into a North Austin industrial park, two performers speak earnestly in Spanish. A hanging sheet of plastic serves as a rehearsal door. They open and shut it ...