Founded by Elisabetta Russo, Italian Opera LAb in Los Angeles offers free training to young singers while preserving Italy’s ...

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 ...

Inside a brightly lit rehearsal hall tucked into a North Austin industrial park, two performers speak earnestly in Spanish. A hanging sheet of plastic serves as a rehearsal door. They open and shut it ...