The carny rolled into Santa Monica on Wednesday. OK, not exactly a carny, this modern shipping container hauled by a semi truck down the 5 from Berkeley to a parking lot across the street from the old ...

Birds in the Moon explores themes of freedom, migration and borders, and when the pandemic suddenly restricted all movement, the opera’s message became even more potent. Now a year and a half after ...

In preparation for the debut of Birds & Balls, Opera Parallèle today announced its popular Bullhorn Community Programs, the company’s ancillary events and opportunities for the public to delve deeper ...

Doug Fitch, director and stage designer for David Bruce’s opera, “A Bird in Your Ear,” composed for singers in Dawn Upshaw’s Graduate Program in Vocal Arts in the Bard College Conservatory of Music, ...

SARASOTA -- Some might say the measure of great art is that it touches the heart, teaches a lesson and shifts one's perspective on life. I confess that at the world premiere of "The Language of Birds, ...

A strange and fascinating piece it is, The Golden Cockerel. The last of 15 operas composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, it emerges from the world of Russian folk tales, in this case a fable by ...

Later in the season, Opera Parallèle will salute LGBTQ Pride Month with the West Coast debut of the nationally acclaimed (“heart wrenching”) opera, Fellow Travelers, by composer Gregory Spears* and ...

"Birds & Balls" is lighter in tone, but there are layers of meaning in both of the upcoming shorter pieces. Grammy Award-nominated composer David T. Little and Pulitzer Prize-winning librettist Royce ...

Mona Webster had two passions: birds and music. The Scottish widow, who died in August at the age of 96, traveled the world well into old age in pursuit of both. In her will, she left the bulk of her ...

Dell’Arte International and the Arcata Playhouse will present the first concert reading of a new chamber opera, “Bird of the Inner Eye,” based on the letters of painter Morris Graves. Due to COVID-19 ...