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 ...

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 ...

“We’re at the point with the park that we’re really wanting to people to embrace it as a true destination,” says Evan Haile, Opera North’s executive director, adding, “We have committed to a ‘park for ...

Britt Hewitt, right, plays fictional journalist Marina Martin in “Katie: The Strongest of the Strong.” The touring production, aimed at young audiences, explores the life of real-life circus ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. BRATTLEBORO — After presenting to full houses in Burlington, Middlebury, Rutland, and Providence, Rhode Island, Arc Benders Circus Opera brings its ...

The Champlain Philharmonic Orchestra will present an innovative collaboration of Mozart’s The Magic Flute with Arc Bender Circus Opera on Saturday, October 11, at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall Theater’s ...

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The summer night of great orchestral music bids farewell to the Baths of Caracalla to conquer the arena of the Circus Maximus. Who knows if the emperor himself would have approved: he, son ...

"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 ...