Discover how a play becomes a sung opera. Composer Daniela Candillari explains the process behind adapting stories like "Romeo and Juliet." ...

When interviewing a puppeteer in the presence of his creation, eye contact can be perplexing. Basil Twist, the acclaimed puppet artist whose designs span Broadway, opera and cabaret stages, was ...

Robert Larsen, driven by his love for opera, founded the Des Moines Metro Opera in Indianola, Iowa in 1973. Larsen's ambitious leadership and dedication built the opera from a small-town production to ...

Playful and satirical, the Marx Brothers’ 1935 A Night at the Opera pokes fun at opera’s elitism while celebrating its spectacle, capturing the era’s ambivalence toward “high” art forms seen as both ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Basil Twist poses outside the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House with the Monkey King puppet he created with costume designer ...