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Opera star and Grammy nominee Jamie Barton will be featured in a benefit performance at First Baptist Church on May 30.

In the shower or in the car -- with the windows rolled up -- weren't the only places amateur Seattle opera singers could perform Wednesday night.

Count Almaviva, muscles bulging and resplendent in white, struts like a peacock across the stage belting his baritone at his countess, who sits in a flowing red gown against a sparse backdrop of sleek, modernist lines.

Gioachino Rossini's La Donna Del Lago will be screened live from the world-famous Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden, to Empire Cinema in Sunniside.

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Sondra Radvanovsky and Marco Berti in the piano dress rehearsal for L.A. Opera's production of Puccini's "Tosca" on May 12, 2013.

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Even as the United States accuses China of military espionage and worries about Beijing's more strident posture in the Asia-Pacific region, the ties between the armed forces of the two nations have been getting closer.

Forget Star Trek into Darkness , Iron Man 3 , Oblivion , and all of those other hyped-up blockbusters.

I'm a progressive, liberal feminist woman-I've lived in San Francisco's Castro district, walking side by side with naked residents exercising their right to free expression.

Crowd scenes were appropriately crowded. Violetta's semi-striptease in Act I, though not objectionable, of course, contributed nothing to the action.

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Opera on Tap is a conundrum of sorts: this most stereotypically high-class of genres is stripped of its powder and wigs and put on in bars.

I'm looking at a photograph of my father when he was a graduate student at Indiana University.

On a recent Sunday in April, conductor Mary Chun lowered her baton after the final sparkling note of Bonjour M. Gauguin , a new chamber opera produced by Berkeley-based West Edge Opera.

Germany is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner with the unveiling Wednesday of a monument in the composer's birthplace of Leipzig.

Usually performed once a year, this the large opera work by Giuseppe Verdi returns to the stage for the second time this season.

The 6th Season of The Concerts for City Greens , free outdoor concert series, commences on Wednesday, May 29th at 6:30 pm at Tudor City Greens, with "I Feel So Much Spring," and will feature professional performers from Broadway and the New York City cabaret, jazz, classical and opera scene.

A ubrey Allicock returns to Opera Theatre of Saint Louis this month as Young Emile in the world premiere of Champion , a work that combines jazz with opera to tell the story of a World Welterweight Champion boxer who is tortured by personal demons.