DETROIT – For many Americans who do not identify as opera buffs, which is undoubtedly a significant majority, Grand Opera can conjure up images of long, unintelligible singing in a foreign language ...

WASHINGTON — As warmups begin and instruments are tuned, music fills the National Mall. Just steps from the Lincoln Memorial, a free opera performance is hoping to reach a new, younger audience.

These days, we’d be lucky if we could afford to see a soap opera on network TV, let alone an opera at the Arsht Center. But thanks to a grant from the Knight Foundation, even the unemployed now have a ...