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 ...

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 ...

Musical conductor Joseph Mechavich directs the music during rehearsal of the Arizona Opera production of “Riders of the Purple Sage,” the first western opera based on the famous Zane Grey in Phoenix ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An early rehearsal for Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang's "The Monkey King" with the Monkey puppet. (Cory Weaver/San Francisco ...