Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Abandon is one of the three pillars of art, says Anthony Roth Costanza, pictured here as Akhnaten in Philip Glass' opera of the ...

Sister Helen Prejean returns to the San Francisco Opera House 25 years later. Photo by Cory Weaver / San Francisco Opera. Nearly three decades ago, a nun wrote a bestseller about counseling a man ...

Stephen Wall, tenor and longtime Seattle Opera Chorus member, is retiring after the company's upcoming "Tosca" performances. Wall also became known as Ballard Opera Man, when he performed in his front ...

Twenty-five years ago, a new opera titled “Dead Man Walking” made its world premiere in a San Francisco Opera production. Based on the same-titled 1993 memoir by author and activist Sister Helen ...

The opening scene of “Dead Man Walking” immediately garnered discomfort: Dark, unsettling music echoed throughout the auditorium as two teenagers’ risqué lakeside rendezvous became the site of ...

SAN FRANCISCO--For Ron Meiners, the aha! moment came during Burning Man 2006. A longtime attendee of the countercultural arts festival, Meiners had been thinking about how one would explain what ...

In a vast studio at the Seattle Opera Center on a recent Monday evening, a glorious noise was heard. While rehearsing the end of Act I of the beloved Puccini opera “Tosca,” the voices of 46 Seattle ...