The historic Mount Tambora volcanic eruption spewed so much ash and debris that it triggered a "year without summer" and the apocalypse seemed nigh -- an apt parallel to our own chaotic existence, ...

Rufus Wainwright is a musical polymath who occupies a unique and beloved place in our musical lives - singer, songwriter and composer of two operas and a musical. His latest work, Dream Requiem, is an ...

Osvaldo Golijov’s beauteously strange “Ainadamar” has reached Los Angeles. The opera, one of this century’s most gratifying, portrays the 1936 political execution of the poet Federico Garcia Lorca ...