A piece of the local art community is going away. It’s a small warehouse-type building next to the PACCAR Plant in Renton. The sign on the front door says “Seattle Opera Scenic Studios.” And inside, ...

When the curtain rises Saturday evening on Los Angeles Opera’s “Turandot,” composer Giacomo Puccini’s last work will feature the L.A. debut of the production’s biggest star: monumental stage sets ...

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Opera Colorado's production of "The Flying Dutchman" was created from the ground up in about 2 years. The organization wanted to put a new spin on an old classic. In Richard Wagner's opera "The Flying ...

Exploring the artistry of set and costume design, from community theater to the Metropolitan Opera. Award-winning scenic designer Michael Gallagher reflects on his decades-long career, from small ...

Opera is about more than great singing, as important as that is. A great set and a great production can make an opera pop. The Lyric Opera of Kansas City is opening its new season with “Cavalleria ...

Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi wrote Aida in the late nineteenth century, setting the tragic romance about a princess, an army general, politics, passion, love, and betrayal in an Egyptian kingdom.

EXPRESSIVE MODERNISM- the kind in which lethal-looking angular shapes thrust and counterthrust in stark, perspective-whacked compositions -- has been dead and buried innumerable times by the art world ...