Middle school is a place for math, science, reading and for children to explore their world. Member station KUNM's Mia Casas visited one school in New Mexico that's also using opera to do that.

Boston Lyric Opera's summer camp is teaching kids how to write their own opera. Over the course of a week, kids ages 8 through 11 years old create their own story, characters and song, then perform.

Labelling an opera as being “for both adults and children” is tantamount to issuing an inverse trigger warning: “Some audience members may find this inoffensive. There will be no violence, no drugs, ...

About 130 children took part in a sleepover at Rome’s opera house, part of a campaign to make up for a lack of music education by making the theater and the art form more familiar and accessible.

It was one of the first warm Monday evenings of the year, and in a sunlit hall at First Parish in Brookline, Boston Lyric Opera head of music Brett Hodgdon was giving 35 young singers from VOICES ...