From the first scene of Amelia, premiered by Seattle Opera and enthusiastically received last Saturday night, librettist Gardner McFall stakes out new territory for opera—not only in subject matter ...

The war in Vietnam left its mark on a generation of Americans, from veterans to protesters to the families of those who were killed. It's inspired films and novels, and now an opera. Seattle Opera is ...

SEATTLE — “Amelia,” Seattle Opera’s world premiere, is an emotional journey of grief, memory, flight and the risks of love. The production ultimately is an American tale of hope, beautifully sung with ...

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Seattle Opera's 2009/10 season comes to a conclusion this spring with the world premiere of AMELIA, an original American story that explores our fascination with flight and the powerful bonds between ...

Simply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Contrary to what you might think, Daron Aric Hagen’s new work is not a bio-opera about Amelia Earhart. Yet the opera’s ...

The set, loosely visualized in a basketball-gym-sized rehearsal space, evokes a 1980s-era North Vietnamese village. Onstage, through an interpreter, a man and wife tell a young American woman — the ...

The waiting is over, Daron Aric Hagen’s “Amelia” has achieved liftoff, and it’s time for a critic to offer some impressions of the world premiere. Firstly, that this is an opera of riveting dramatic ...

SEATTLE — Boeing isn’t the only company to roll out new airplanes this year. The Seattle Opera world premiere of “Amelia,” which opens Saturday at McCaw Hall, includes two nearly full-scale planes in ...

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