Bookshelf ‘The Impossible Art’ Review: Where Performance and Music Collide For Matthew Aucoin, opera is the place where multiple artforms wrestle—with exciting and unpredictable results.

Often, though, when art makes its way on stage, it brings with it a lot of self-consciousness about the translation. That is to say, it becomes, partly or entirely, about making art.

The Vienna State Opera is not exactly a go-to place for cutting-edge contemporary art: Inaugurated a century and a half ago, it is housed in an ornate edifice with gilded and velvet interiors.

From Bugs Bunny cartoons to Seattle Opera (with its beginners-friendly "Carmen" running May 4-19), here are ways to start learning about, and enjoying, the lavish energy of opera.

On Smaller Opera Stages, Daring Art Has More Room to Breathe. ... (According to the German Music Information Center, the country has 83 institutions presenting opera and music theater.) ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WJW) — Did you know that the Cleveland Orchestra’s music director Franz Welser-Most has brought opera to the stage of Severance Hall? Fox 8’s Kenny Crumpton gets … ...