CEDAR RAPIDS — Before beginning a vocal lesson with students at Washington High School, visiting teacher and professional opera singer Dorian McCall has them start with abdominal exercises. Lenora ...

LONDON — Depending on whom you ask, director Katie Mitchell is either a guiding light or a destructive force of the British stage. Although she mostly works abroad now, her staging of the new opera ...

"It's nothing to do with loving a man," government prosecutor Mortimer screams at King Edward II at the beginning of George Benjamin's third opera, "Lessons in Love and Violence." He pays heavily for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The actress previously said she spent seven months in vocal training in order to portray opera legend Maria Callas Angelina Jolie ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Chicago-based opera singer Dorian McCall is returning to Washington High School this month to provide free vocal lessons to students. McCall, a baritone singer, is providing two weeks ...

One thing I firmly believe about my job is simply this: if you're going to dish it out, as I occasionally do, you have to be able to take it. In putting together my column for this past Sunday I ...

MARIETTA, Ga. -- We've always known that fairy tales offer lessons, but a teaching team at Ford Elementary School in Cobb County has found a way to put STEAM into it. STEAM is an acronym for science, ...

Opera is a spectacle that can be glorious and delightful or a painful bore depending on how you approach it and how much background you have to appreciate it. Larry Mantle talks with opera and music ...

George Benjamin and Martin Crimp’s “Lessons in Love and Violence” is a masterly follow-up to their acclaimed “Written on Skin.” By David Allen LENOX, Mass. — The problem with “Lessons in Love and ...

The Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance's "Opera 101" program features the music and stories of six of French opera's most famous ill-fated heroines. The ladies of "Operatic Love in the French ...