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The scene is a clearing in some northern California woods, late one night in the 1930s. The sound of sirens shatters the air; searchlights erratically disrupt the A figure suddenly bursts into the ...

Imagine a cocktail-drinking, cigarette-smoking Don Draper as Figaro. By his side is his betrothed, Susanna, dressed and coifed as Betty Draper. LSU Opera Director Dugg McDonough envisioned it, and now ...

American opera may not often be “pretty,” in the conventional sense — full of sweeping orchestral passages, irresistibly tuneful arias and triumphal choruses. But at its best, American opera is ...

When he finished his first major novel — “In Dubious Battle” — John Steinbeck’s editors crossed their fingers for another epic. What the novelist delivered instead was a thin novella called “Of Mice ...

There is nothing I find more exciting than opening night at the opera. As a former opera singer, I can speak from experience that this elation is shared equally among those on- and off-stage. There is ...

Tulsa Opera is pleased to welcome Carlisle Floyd, one of the foremost American opera composers and librettists, to Tulsa for the upcoming Oklahoma premiere of his opera Of Mice & Men, based on John ...

The release of the organ repossession action flick Repo Men has some crying “copycat.” Including Repo! The Opera director Darren Bousman, who claims the projects ...