In his boldest and most far-reaching move since taking the helm of San Francisco Opera two years ago, general director David Gockley has announced a new agreement to begin worldwide, cinema-quality broadcasts of six of the company's productions per year, beginning in March 2008.

By Ken Keuffel, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Sep. 16--When Washington National Opera presents Puccini's La Boheme next Sunday in the nation's capital, an audience far larger than that in the 2,280-seat Kennedy Center will see it.

Chari Shanker, production director of the Los Angeles Opera and Opera Pacific, has died of an allergic reaction at her home in Sherman Oak, Calif., at 55. Shanker, who died on Aug. 19, coordinated the aspects that make up a major opera production.

By Edward Reichel Deseret Morning News ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The novels of John Steinbeck are the stuff of which modern opera is made. His works chronicle the hardships of the poor as they struggle to survive in the harshness of reality.

HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- This holiday season, Houston Grand Opera (HGO) stages a spectacular new production of Humperdinck's beloved fairy tale opera Hansel and Gretel featuring artists from the HGO Studio and members of the HGO Orchestra and Children's Chorus.