The first time I saw an opera, I was sitting in the far rear of balcony seating, watching Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” unfold entirely in Italian. I did not speak Italian. I was too far ...

Audiences packed the house for a new production of “Tristan und Isolde.” They also came prepared, with (at least) five different forms of coffee. By Louis Lucero II It was the first intermission at ...