Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio.” By now, you’ve almost certainly seen something promoting the Cincinnati Opera production ...

In this sometimes plodding, sometimes energetic, but always fascinating history of opera, music historians Abbate and Parker conduct us on a captivating journey from the birth of opera in the 17th ...

Robert Larsen, driven by his love for opera, founded the Des Moines Metro Opera in Indianola, Iowa in 1973. Larsen's ambitious leadership and dedication built the opera from a small-town production to ...

But what exactly is the “Liverpool Oratorio”? And what is it doing in the midst of a Cincinnati Opera season filled with much more traditional operatic fare – things like “Don Giovanni” and “La ...