Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Acrobats perform under the big top set up on the Malmo Opera stage for "Circus Days and Nights." (Mats Backer) A drum beats. An ...

Glass’s new circus-set music-theatre work, based on the writings of poet Robert Lax, is sensationally staged but the music remains earthbound Philip Glass calls his latest music-theatre work – his ...

Circus has always shamelessly borrowed from other performance forms. It has coopted all types of music to sit alongside its signature brass band sound, so that music and circus are synonymous – ...

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, ...

An imaginative world of circus, opera, music and magic will spring to life at the Sydney Opera House when Mrs Giggly's Magic ...

The story of Orpheus’ descent into the underworld to retrieve his beloved Eurydice has fascinated people for centuries. Plato wasn’t a fan. He thought Orpheus took the easy way out. He reasoned if ...

A drum beats. An accordion joins in, like the music of a clown. A trombone further adds a circusy effect. A bearded lady, aerial acrobat, juggler, lion tamer and trapeze artist all materialize under ...

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," said Bryan Hymel ...