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, ...

After presenting to full houses in Burlington, Middlebury, Rutland, and Providence, Rhode Island, Arc Benders Circus Opera brings its circus-infused interpretation of Mozart’s beloved “The Magic Flute ...

So Circus Smirkus alumni — aerialists, jugglers and acrobats — will be featured throughout the opera. “A circus-themed ‘Pagliacci’ is not exactly novel,” Collier says. “There are plenty of opera ...

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 ...

As is perhaps to be expected in a form which deals in incarnations of fantasy, the discipline of circus itself has undergone many shape-shifting transformations over the past few decades. At the ...

"I Pagliacci” or “The Clowns,” set in a traveling circus, is one of the most popular of opera tragedies, full of irresistible music. Ruggero Leoncavallo’s 1892 dramatic tale — he wrote the libretto ...

ROME (Reuters) - Rome's Circus Maximus, once home to ancient chariot races, is preparing for a new season as an opera house as the coronavirus pandemic has forced organisers to seek huge venues that ...

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