BEIJING – On his first attempt, Nicholas Brownlee manages to spit out the sound "shee." His teacher patiently shakes her head. "It's not 'shee,' it's 'xi,'" she says, pronouncing something close to ...

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The team from KLCO and orchestra from KLPac acknowledging the crowd after the opening show of Don Giovanni. THE staging of a famous opera and a film depicting the journey of a young swimmer were among ...

Who says the story is everything in opera? In the Spanish-language opera “Maria de Buenos Aires,” composer Astor Piazzolla and librettist Horacio Ferrer offer only the barest outline of a plot: A ...

Inside a brightly lit rehearsal hall tucked into a North Austin industrial park, two performers speak earnestly in Spanish. A hanging sheet of plastic serves as a rehearsal door. They open and shut it ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Some audiences may dismiss opera as lofty or inaccessible, but operatic ...