I'm nine years old. I'm the only kid I know who likes opera. The first time I heard opera was when my dad put a bit of Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" on my iPod. I liked it as soon as I started ...

Before taking kids to an opera, Google the opera and give them the general story line so they know what is going to take place, and watch a few segments online, suggests Karen Flayhart, Opera Omaha's ...

It didn’t take long for performers from the Salt Marsh Opera to get an audience of 900 fifth and sixth grade students involved in their production. They simply walked up the aisles of Woodstock ...

Melanie Everard, was an opera-skeptic. “I was much more than a skeptic, I disliked opera intensely.” A surprising sentiment from a music teacher, and it made her an unlikely candidate to participate ...

Opera often is considered esoteric at best, stuffy and boring at worst. Thanks to the efforts of the Chicago Opera Theater, it is neither of those things for a growing number of Chicago Public School ...

I know it doesn’t happen for every parent, so having a child who shares my passion for theater, music, books and arts and culture in general feels really good. As my daughter gets older (she’s 12 now) ...

Opera Southwest is premiering a new opera, “The Farolitos of Christmas,” based on the celebrated New Mexican author Rudolfo Anaya’s children’s book of the same name. Opening at the National Hispanic ...

A scene of a young Claus and elves from Mark Adamo's Becoming Santa Claus permiering tonight at the Winspear Opera House The Dallas Opera has never before commissioned three new operas for a single ...

It might not match the evil of Mephistopheles or even the witch from Hansel and Gretel, but for a group of young opera composers, writers and performers, there was plenty of drama to be found at ...

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Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. In rehearsal halls across San Diego County, hundreds of children have begun warbling one of ...