Loving opera is such a simple thing. And yet the conventional wisdom seems to strive to make it complicated. Opera, and classical music, are elitist and arcane: This view is held both by people who ...

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 ...

Bizet’s “Carmen,” perhaps the most notorious opera, tells the tragic romance of the beautiful gypsy Carmen and an already-betrothed soldier, Don Jose. Written in the 1870s and set in Spain, the story ...

There’s one more set of performances in this year’s Michigan Opera Theatre season — Ruggero Leoncavallo’s 1892 classic I Pagliacci, running May 12-20. It’s also the last chance of the season for the ...

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, ...