--Over a span of about 30 years, the composer Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti wrote 75 operas, 16 symphonies, 19 string quartets and dozens of other songs, sonatas and such. "That just blows my mind, ...

This month's Opera 101 will answer the question of how to make an opera and more with "Let's build an opera!" Guests will learn what goes into writing an opera, listen to a variety of great arias by ...

Opera is a spectacle that can be glorious and delightful or a painful bore depending on how you approach it and how much background you have to appreciate it. Larry Mantle talks with opera and music ...

Round and round the corner they came. Young people, old people, families — all coming to the Bettendorf Library on a Thursday night in the dead of winter to attend the first of five Opera "101" ...