Before taking kids to an opera, Google the opera and give them the general story line so they know what is going to take place, and watch a few segments online, suggests Karen Flayhart, Opera Omaha's ...

Melanie Everard, was an opera-skeptic. “I was much more than a skeptic, I disliked opera intensely.” A surprising sentiment from a music teacher, and it made her an unlikely candidate to participate ...

Opera often is considered esoteric at best, stuffy and boring at worst. Thanks to the efforts of the Chicago Opera Theater, it is neither of those things for a growing number of Chicago Public School ...

It didn’t take long for performers from the Salt Marsh Opera to get an audience of 900 fifth and sixth grade students involved in their production. They simply walked up the aisles of Woodstock ...

Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. In rehearsal halls across San Diego County, hundreds of children have begun warbling one of ...

I know it doesn’t happen for every parent, so having a child who shares my passion for theater, music, books and arts and culture in general feels really good. As my daughter gets older (she’s 12 now) ...

At Kids Opera Boot Camp, the three-hour session includes education about the building blocks of opera, creative activities and a kid-friendly opera performance. Karen Almond The Dallas Opera believes ...

A scene of a young Claus and elves from Mark Adamo's Becoming Santa Claus permiering tonight at the Winspear Opera House The Dallas Opera has never before commissioned three new operas for a single ...

Kids all around Southern California swarmed to camps this summer — computer camp, science camp, acting camp. Then there's Opera Camp, a two-week immersion in all things opera run by the LA Opera. In ...

It might not match the evil of Mephistopheles or even the witch from Hansel and Gretel, but for a group of young opera composers, writers and performers, there was plenty of drama to be found at ...

No, the members of this young company — from 7-year-old moppets all the way up to assured 18-year-olds — say things like: “I think a lot of people can agree that once the opera bug bites, it doesn’t ...