The anniversary year will also present a series of classical opera productions. Turandot, performed at Shangyin Opera House ...

Lakes Area Music Festival has an opera emphasis this year The festival, which runs July 25-Aug. 17 in Brainerd, will include the opera “Hansel and Gretel” and singers performing opera arias and duets.

Among the most goose-bump-inducing moments in opera is Mimì’s entrance in the duet that concludes the first act of Giacomo Puccini’s 1896 opera “La Bohème.” Rodolfo (tenor), a struggling poet, has ...