At Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Principal Conductor Daniela Candillari says the biggest difference between spoken theater and opera isn’t just that the words are sung—it’s that the orchestra becomes ...

The San Diego Opera's Words and Music program has kids writing operas. Check out the video of the rehearsal of their "Diary of a Wimpy Kid." It's a hot summer morning in Barrio Logan. Students are ...

Lesley Dill discovered the intoxicating power of Emily Dickinson’s telegraphic verse as a 40-year-old artist with little interest in poetry. When her mother gave her a book of Dickinson’s work as a ...

The English National Opera (ENO) presents a unique concert of Joseph Haydn's Seven Last Words on the Cross, and Joel Thompson's Seven Last Words of the Unarmed. This is the first time these two pieces ...

The composer’s El Gallo features not a single recognisable syllable but, he says, that’s no barrier to understanding I have a fascination with the human voice which borders on obsession. It has driven ...

Encantadas Tobias Picker, Narrator Nashville Symphony Orchestra Giancarlo Guerrero, Conductor Opera Without Words Nashville Symphony Orchestra Giancarlo Guerrero, Conductor Tobias Picker’s Opera ...