It probably won't be "Madame Butterfly," but it should be fun. In an effort to get more people involved with opera, which sometimes suffers from an elitist, highbrow reputation, London's world-famous ...

With its multimillion-dollar budget and access to the world’s biggest stars, the San Francisco Opera will always be the Bay Area’s pre-eminent purveyor of opera. But it’s not the only one, not by a ...

When it comes to bel canto in the Bay Area, San Francisco Opera is the giant redwood dominating the western landscape. But this mighty institution, one of the oldest opera companies in the nation, has ...

The opera world’s best-known children are about to head back into the deep, dark woods. “Hansel and Gretel” returns to the Bay Area this week in two different but equally large-scale productions at ...

The opera A Thousand Splendid Suns is totally concerned with the political upheavals that have transformed Afghanistan over the past half-century. It is also the story of how the lives of women in ...