It didn’t take long for performers from the Salt Marsh Opera to get an audience of 900 fifth and sixth grade students involved in their production. They simply walked up the aisles of Woodstock ...

Loving opera is such a simple thing. And yet the conventional wisdom seems to strive to make it complicated. Opera, and classical music, are elitist and arcane: This view is held both by people who ...

Bizet’s “Carmen,” perhaps the most notorious opera, tells the tragic romance of the beautiful gypsy Carmen and an already-betrothed soldier, Don Jose. Written in the 1870s and set in Spain, the story ...

In the first of a six-part series, Tim Ashley goes in search of the best opera productions available to watch complete on YouTube. To open the series, he looks at opera’s greatest love stories. Tell ...

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What’s the connection between a dead parrot and the beach at Skegness? French composer Jacques Offenbach’s rarely performed comic opera Vert Vert, will be relayed there on July 6, so more people ...