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, ...

KEARNEY - The first- and third-graders filed into the music room eyeing the man with the guitar and banjo. "Teaching kindergartners, I learned it's important to watch kids while playing," he said ...

Shana Blake Hill's introduction to opera didn't exactly enthrall her. "My parents were great opera fans and I hated it for many years," says Hill, 31, of Los Angeles. "Mainly because they were ...

Darrell Hoemann/UI Lyric Theatre Sharp-ears played by Lisa Buhelos^ and Fox played by Michaela Wright^ during a rehearsal of Little Sharp Ears in the Tryon Festival Theatre at Krannert Center f in ...

A HISTORY OF OPERA. By Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker. W.W. Norton & Company. 624 pages. $45. Two academics, one American, one British, have collaborated to write a one-volume history of opera for ...

After growing up in Billings in a family not particularly interested in opera, Chris Johnson wasn't sure he'd like it either. He watched rehearsals for "The Merry Widow" while he was a student at ...