Opera Western Reserve production director David Vosburgh sees the primary role of the opera company as educational. “We take opera to the schools,” he said. “We use students at YSU (Youngstown State ...

Under the stage direction of Scott Skiba and music direction of Susan Davenny Wyner, Opera Western Reserve will present the Giuseppe Verdi opera at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Powers Auditorium. Composed by ...

Karin Wolverton, who plays Jane Withersteen, is confronted by Keith Phares, playing Elder Tull, in a scene during an Arizona Opera rehearsal in Phoenix of “Riders of the Purple Sage,” the first ...

The company will mount what is being billed as the first-ever Western opera, a piece the company commissioned based on Zane Grey’s seminal novel “Riders of the Purple Sage.” It is the first time in ...