Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK — On Wednesday at St. Bartholomew’s Cathedral, Opera Lafayette gave the first of two concerts celebrating the 30-year ...

Spokane Opera celebrated its silver anniversary with a vibrant, steamy production of Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci” Friday at The Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox. There were those in Friday’s audience, ...

The opera A Thousand Splendid Suns is totally concerned with the political upheavals that have transformed Afghanistan over the past half-century. It is also the story of how the lives of women in ...

The celebrated director's first foray into opera started out as a look back at a painful chapter in her country's history through Khaled Hosseini's story of two women whose lives are marked by the ...

The singular show returns to the LA Opera May 30, with a final date set for June 21. The playful production, an otherworldly epic featuring incredible opera performers, animated projections, and ...

Editor’s Note: In this monthly feature, our arts and culture reporter takes a deeper look at the local arts scene, shining a spotlight on issues and trends, both local and national, and the arts ...

Suns was informed by Hosseini's childhood in his native Afghanistan. The narrative centers Mariam and Laila, two Afghan women brought together under brutal Taliban rule whose devotion to each other ...

Two years ago, moments before her first in-person meeting to discuss directing “A Thousand Splendid Suns” for Seattle Opera, Afghan film director Roya Sadat got a text message: The Taliban were ...

Minutes before Afghan filmmaker Roya Sadat entered her first Seattle Opera production meeting for an adaptation of the novel "A Thousand Splendid Suns," she learned that her hometown of Herat had ...

Director Roya Sadat at a dress rehearsal for "A Thousand Splendid Suns" in Seattle, Washington AFP Minutes before Afghan filmmaker Roya Sadat entered her first Seattle Opera production meeting for an ...