NEW YORK — On Wednesday at St. Bartholomew’s Cathedral, Opera Lafayette gave the first of two concerts celebrating the 30-year career of its departing founder, artistic director and conductor, Ryan ...

Expectation and electricity spark the air and light the eyes of everyone waiting to witness this moment. With a collaboration of talents from around the world and spanning years of work, Seattle Opera ...

Opera’s beloved but well-worn old warhorses give us the luxury of telling ourselves, “It’s a sad story, but it happened back then, over there,” which makes it easy to escape unscathed into the bright ...

As the Taliban once again assert control of Afghanistan and push women further out of public view, a female Afghan filmmaker is working thousands of miles away to help bring to life a wildly popular ...

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 ...

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 ...