BEIJING – On his first attempt, Nicholas Brownlee manages to spit out the sound "shee." His teacher patiently shakes her head. "It's not 'shee,' it's 'xi,'" she says, pronouncing something close to ...

The team from KLCO and orchestra from KLPac acknowledging the crowd after the opening show of Don Giovanni. THE staging of a famous opera and a film depicting the journey of a young swimmer were among ...

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SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Inside the California Theater, Opera San Jose is presenting its first Spanish language opera performance. Florencia en el Amazonas by Daniel Catán is a story rich for the ...

Who says the story is everything in opera? In the Spanish-language opera “Maria de Buenos Aires,” composer Astor Piazzolla and librettist Horacio Ferrer offer only the barest outline of a plot: A ...