Under the stage direction of Scott Skiba and music direction of Susan Davenny Wyner, Opera Western Reserve will present the Giuseppe Verdi opera at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Powers Auditorium. Composed by ...

Karin Wolverton, who plays Jane Withersteen, is confronted by Keith Phares, playing Elder Tull, in a scene during an Arizona Opera rehearsal in Phoenix of “Riders of the Purple Sage,” the first ...

Opera Western Reserve production director David Vosburgh sees the primary role of the opera company as educational. “We take opera to the schools,” he said. “We use students at YSU (Youngstown State ...

If you don’t picture cowboy hats and boots when you hear the word opera, you’ve never seen Riders of the Purple Sage. It’s the first opera completely developed in Arizona, and it premiered on Saturday ...

Join us for a light-hearted and candid session as we strip away the artifices and mystique behind Opera and share with you what it is really all about. Be enthralled by its captivating stories through ...

The company will mount what is being billed as the first-ever Western opera, a piece the company commissioned based on Zane Grey’s seminal novel “Riders of the Purple Sage.” It is the first time in ...

Tom Russell calls his latest album “Les Misérables in cowboy hats.” Twenty years in the making, The Rose of Roscrae is a cowboy folk opera, a frontier musical, a 52-song double album, two-and-a-half ...

The Monkey King, a mythical Chinese character created by Wu Cheng'en in his 16th-century novel "Journey to the West," has been portrayed in films, manga and video games. But the mischievous hero has ...