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 ...

During my stewardship as owner of the Civic Opera building, I did not participate in the discussions that arose from time to time regarding the possibility and advisability of constructing a new ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Mark Trevorrow does this thing when he's being his all-acrylic crooner Bob Downe where he starts a song in a high register and then ...

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 ...

Bampton Classical Opera deserves huge praise for putting on this new Mozart opera during the much-publicised 250th anniversary year of Mozart’s birth. Indeed, I would be hard pressed to think of any ...

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 ...

It is often the case that when a county was originally created by the Legislature a county seat was arbitrarily assigned as a place holder allowing residents to later vote on where to locate their ...