W hat produces talent? It’s an age-old question. We all remember the early prodigies. Take the brilliant composer Wolfgang ...

From boos to vegetables, opera stars have had to put up with all sorts being aimed in their direction over the centuries ...

Dressed in a red-and-white warrior costume, Peking opera actress Zhang Wanting balances on one foot on the narrow handle of a rosewood chair. She bends forward, lifts her other leg high and grasps the ...

For more than two decades, filmmaker Neil Burger and architect Diana Kellogg have lived on one of New York City’s smallest — and most distinctive — streets. Staple Street, an unobtrusive brick passage ...

Composer Peter Hugh White and librettist Clare Heath join host Rosie Millard in front of a London audience to explore why the story of chemist and x-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin and the race ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover travel trends and wellness and family travel. Hailing from Yerevan, Armenia, she has performed at top stages worldwide ...

A few of the Dallas Opera orchestra’s musicians were ready to leave after practice, but a handful were still milling around their rehearsal space in the Winspear Opera House. Some of them were ...

The store may be closed, but the Wanamaker building will be alive with art this fall. Opera Philadelphia is throwing open the doors of the Wanamaker Building and inviting the city back into the ...

This summer, Finger Lakes Opera and Garth Fagan Dance present *The Anonymous Lover*, an 18th-century opera by Joseph Bologne, a Black composer and violinist. Guest Host Mona Seghatoleslami explores ...

Founded in 1942 by Portland’s Chinese immigrants to raise funds for China’s defense in World War II, the Yat Sing Music Club perseveres in preserving Cantonese opera through ongoing rehearsals and ...

When you first install Opera Air, you'll meet the requisite verdant landscape of rolling hills and a lone hiker, overlaid with an inspirational Jon Kabat-Zinn quote: "You can't stop the waves, but you ...