In preparation for the debut of Birds & Balls, Opera Parallèle today announced its popular Bullhorn Community Programs, the company’s ancillary events and opportunities for the public to delve deeper ...

The only thing wrong with Washington Concert Opera’s energizing performance of Giacomo Puccini’s “La Rondine” on Sunday at the Lisner Auditorium was that I could hear it just once. Oh, and also the ...

"Birds & Balls" is lighter in tone, but there are layers of meaning in both of the upcoming shorter pieces. Grammy Award-nominated composer David T. Little and Pulitzer Prize-winning librettist Royce ...

A strange and fascinating piece it is, The Golden Cockerel. The last of 15 operas composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, it emerges from the world of Russian folk tales, in this case a fable by ...

Opera Parallele, the Bay Area's distinguished producer and champion of contemporary opera, and SF JAZZ present the world premiere of Birds & Balls, a novel pairing of two witty operas examining the ...

When Li Ruoning, a broadcasting student at Northwestern Polytechnic University, put on the gorgeous attire from the Bird's Nest edition of the Turandot opera, the selection process for the opera's ...