Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Acrobats perform under the big top set up on the Malmo Opera stage for "Circus Days and Nights." (Mats Backer) A drum beats. An ...

While waiting for the chamber opera — a Spoleto Festival USA presentation of Australian opera company Opera Queensland's ...

Circus has always shamelessly borrowed from other performance forms. It has coopted all types of music to sit alongside its signature brass band sound, so that music and circus are synonymous – ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An internationally acclaimed tenor from New Orleans is pairing circus acrobatics and opera, with a lot of help from his friends. "We want it to be fun. That's what we feel opera is, ...

Opera Ithaca will open its fourth season this weekend with a new production of Ruggero Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci” that will run at Circus Culture over the next two weekends. Thomas Bagwell ...

Tragedy in opera can deliver an emotional sucker punch like no other medium. Usually, the music is to blame. But when the main characters also work in a clown troupe and must continue to entertain ...

The Arts Council has decided on next year's funding for circus, opera and the traditional arts in advance of its main revenue funding decisions in mid-January. The council has just announced almost ...

A drum beats. An accordion joins in, like the music of a clown. A trombone further adds a circusy effect. A bearded lady, aerial acrobat, juggler, lion tamer and trapeze artist all materialize under ...