After being married to someone for many years, the relationship tends to go through changes. Some of these changes, if not managed in a healthy way, can lead to divorce despite them being natural ...

“She was trying to expose us to everything, to get us to think beyond our small home town,” said Solis, who grew up in Santa Ana. “In many ways, she really awoke this curiosity in the arts in me, and ...

Stage director Cynthia Stokes calls "The Marriage of Figaro" the most important opera in the world, and she has the résumé to back it up. This Saturday’s Amarillo Opera production marks the seventh ...

Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” a tale of love, drama and revolution, will be adapted by the Jacobs School of Music Opera and Ballet Theater at the Musical Arts Center this weekend. The opera will ...

Amarillo Opera is presenting Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" for one night only on Saturday, Oct. 4. The opera, directed locally by Cynthia Stokes, tells a story of love, mischief, and forgiveness ...

In association with Klyde Warren Park’s second anniversary celebration, the Dallas Opera is presenting their second annual Opening Night Simulcast in the Park. This year’s offering is Mozart’s comedic ...

The cost of tying the knot is going up in Los Angeles County after the Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to nearly double the cost of marriage licenses from $91 to $176. What’s changing: In a letter ...

A philosopher interested in public life can learn from how the popular media handle issues of art and morality. I read with interest now and then Slipped Disc, a web site devoted to gossip about the ...

Combined with some niftily manoeuvred furniture, minimal suggestions of a garden for the outside scenes, and the genius touch of a bathtub for the Count in Act Three, a few strategically deployed ...

This summer’s Santa Fe Opera season, which runs through Aug. 23, skews toward standard repertoire, but there were surprises within that narrow compass. Director Melly Still gave Wagner’s “Die Walküre” ...

It could be today. The boss wants to sleep with the bride before the wedding. His wife’s not too happy about it, so she and the bride-to-be connive to teach the boss a lesson. And the bridegroom sort ...

The other week, I wrote about going to the Santa Fe Opera’s “La Bohème” on a first date. The Journal received so much positive feedback about that piece that they decided to send me back for Wolfgang ...