For more than a year, opera maestro Peter Mark has gone on about jewel-box productions. And all year he’s had to explain, over and over, what a jewel-box opera is. Local opera fans finally have an ...

Lights along the wall cast shadows across the auditorium. The soft-cushioned red chairs stand in silent rows, directing one's attention toward the curtained stage of the King Opera House. A beautiful ...

I attended the Boulder Opera production of Handel’s Orlando April 5. The story was silly. The size of the audience was disappointingly small (it was Easter), but the voices and the musicality were ...

ALBAWABA - Opera houses in the Arab world have long been seen as symbols of sophistication and cultural refinement, offering audiences the finest performances. From the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo, ...

We just left the beautiful Thursday evening performance of “Man of La Mancha,” presented by Redlands’ newest jewel, Redlands Civic Light Opera. We want to share with Our Town the wonderful production ...

As Chicago`s presenter of unusual operas in English, Chicago Opera Theater is quite used to diving down into the operatic repertoire and emerging with its hands full of pearls. This new production of ...