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1 Photos: Jackie Burns and More in 'Country' CATS at Casa Mañana 2 Video: Jackie Burns Sings 'Memory' from Casa Mañana's Country Production of CATS Fort Worth Opera (FWOpera) announced today the names ...

Austin Opera has announced the premiere of its commissioned opera Ofrenda, a bilingual tale of a family's love and loss, to ...

Lawyers rarely get to display their artistic talents. The closest most get to the creative process is drafting a contract for a performer or writer. Lawyers rarely get to display their artistic ...

Mark Campbell: "Give me that big, loud aria. Give me that ensemble where ten people are singing and you can’t understand what anyone is saying but you feel it because the music is telling you. And ...

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It’s unusual for a librettist to get top billing in opera, but Niloufar Talebi is no ordinary librettist, and her latest work, “Abraham in Flames,” is certainly no ordinary opera. For Talebi, who has ...

Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage will be in St. Louis with her daughter and fellow writer Ruby Aiyo Gerber for a pair of talks on Feb. 23 & Feb. 24. Conversation topics will include their world ...

“Are Black audiences, actors, and producers simply conditioned to having their stories told by white counterparts?” screenwriter and director Darian Lane, who is Black, wondered in a 2021 op-ed for ...

It’s a rare thing to be a full-time librettist today. Mark Campbell (Thtr’75) would like to make it less so. “One reason I mentor is to find other writers to help do all this work — it’s getting hard ...

One day a few years back, Mark Campbell looked at his iPhone and discovered a message from the composer Mason Bates: “I want to talk to you about a possible opera project.” Campbell called right away.