Trying to understand the depth of opera in one class can be daunting for anybody. Carolina D'Souza gives it a try. Opera for Dummies, the book and the idea, has been exhausted. Yet I find myself ...

On Wednesday, May 20 at 1 p.m. ET, the Canadian Opera Company (COC), in partnership with the Star, will provide readers with an opera exploration with soprano and COC Teaching Artist Makenzie Morgan.

At this difficult time for us all, Opera Holland Park certainly knows a thing or two. It knows that home teaching can present challenges to absolutely anyone. It recognises the benefits that music can ...

THAT COMPASSION is viewed as weakness in a world where only power rules is a subtext simmering just beneath the surface of Mozart's late opera La Clemenza di Tito. In David McVicar's majestic new ...

Things really haven't changed much for music teachers during the past 300 years. Kids still cut up in class. Notes are sometimes difficult to learn. And performing music is always worthwhile — for ...