A costume sketch for the character Moore from “The Dragon of Wantley” by Seth Bodie, costume designer. Poking fun at the lofty conventions of opera is a practice that’s almost as old as opera itself.

Behind the patched and faded fed velvet curtain of Philadelphia’s elegant Academy of Music (built in 1857 and famed for its acoustics) lives a small brown bat. During Metropolitan Opera visits to the ...

When Dennis Tamblyn came to the UA as a biochemistry and molecular biophysics freshman, he had no intention of ever becoming an opera singer. But after joining the University Community Chorus as a ...

Even those of us who love opera have to admit that a lot of it is ridiculous. “There’s a scene in (Verdi’s) ‘Don Carlo’ where the baritone gets stabbed,” said director Samuel Mungo. “He sings an ...