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 ...

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.

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 ...