Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. SARAH LARSEN, REPORTER: It's got more drama than a soap opera, more weird costumes than a Lady Gaga ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, the opera world had one of its few-and-far-between viral videos. It’s an episode of the Kids Meet series by YouTube’s HiHo Kids, titled Kids Meet an Opera Singer. American soprano ...

Even with an audience of a few hundred elementary and high school students filling the seats, the gleaming California Theatre was hushed when opera singers first took the stage Wednesday morning in a ...

Some Allen County classrooms are being temporarily transformed into mini opera houses all for the sake of education. “It feels like a concert,” said Southwick Elementary first grader Kyleizh Gaulden. ...

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 ...

IRVINE — Opera Pacific’s seventh annual Opera Camp is well under way and, as usual, many participants are from Irvine. This year’s production is “Christopher Columbus,” which uses music by Jacques ...

Many kids identify with the raw emotions displayed in opera, with its torrid tales of love, rejection, death, swapped brides and revolution. After all, some children express the same range of tantrums ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. This is Broken Hill, a small desert town known mostly for its giant mines. What it's not known for is ...