If you don’t picture cowboy hats and boots when you hear the word opera, you’ve never seen Riders of the Purple Sage. It’s the first opera completely developed in Arizona, and it premiered on Saturday ...

Tom Russell calls his latest album “Les Misérables in cowboy hats.” Twenty years in the making, The Rose of Roscrae is a cowboy folk opera, a frontier musical, a 52-song double album, two-and-a-half ...

Guiseppe Verdi’s “La Traviata” will be this year’s production by Opera Western Reserve, and auditions are planned in April for principal roles and chorus members as well as its Emerging Artists ...

The company will mount what is being billed as the first-ever Western opera, a piece the company commissioned based on Zane Grey’s seminal novel “Riders of the Purple Sage.” It is the first time in ...

In Netflix's The Abandons, Gillian Anderson and Lena Headey play two steely matriarchs that face off on the American frontier. But don't let the spurs and cowboy hats fool you. At its heart, the new ...

(From left) Baritone Yunpeng Wang, pianist Siyi Fang, soprano Ying Huang, journalist Ken Smith at a panel at Asia Society in New York to discuss about the Western opera in China. Li Ang / For China ...

The Monkey King, a mythical Chinese character created by Wu Cheng'en in his 16th-century novel "Journey to the West," has been portrayed in films, manga and video games. But the mischievous hero has ...