Ten-year-old Mason Cole-Schweizer was cast against type as the antagonistic Dr. Bartolo in Rossini's comedic opera, "The Barber of Seville." But the cherubic blond with freckles rose to the occasion, ...

Utilizing music from Mozart, Offenbach, Verdi and Donizetti with easily-understood lyrics in English John Davies one-hour adaptation of "Pinocchio" is the ideal introduction to opera for young people.

KEARNEY - The first- and third-graders filed into the music room eyeing the man with the guitar and banjo. "Teaching kindergartners, I learned it's important to watch kids while playing," he said ...

Darrell Hoemann/UI Lyric Theatre Sharp-ears played by Lisa Buhelos^ and Fox played by Michaela Wright^ during a rehearsal of Little Sharp Ears in the Tryon Festival Theatre at Krannert Center f in ...

A HISTORY OF OPERA. By Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker. W.W. Norton & Company. 624 pages. $45. Two academics, one American, one British, have collaborated to write a one-volume history of opera for ...