"It's nothing to do with loving a man," government prosecutor Mortimer screams at King Edward II at the beginning of George Benjamin's third opera, "Lessons in Love and Violence." He pays heavily for ...

One thing I firmly believe about my job is simply this: if you're going to dish it out, as I occasionally do, you have to be able to take it. In putting together my column for this past Sunday I ...

A few years ago, when I was in Catalonia, Spain, I heard about the Cornut Festival (pronounced kor-noot) in a small rural village. Unable to get specific information about it, I nonetheless decided to ...

The first opera I ever saw was Der Meistersinger by Richard Wagner. It was a concert opera, performed in San Francisco in 1986, in parallel with The Ring Cycle, his legendary, greatest work. The show ...