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Sancta: What to know about the opera with explicit lesbian sex, live piercings, and naked roller-skating nuns

The German opera's use of explicit sex and real blood caused 18 audience members to require medical treatment in one weekend.

Sexual Assaults in the LGBTQ+ Community — A Survivor Finds His Voice

A renowned opera singer and his husband recently pleaded guilty to assaulting Samuel Schultz.

Opera Star David Daniels, Husband Plead Guilty to Sexual Assaulting Young Man

The two reached a plea deal in a case involving an assault on a graduate student in Houston in 2010.

Opera and beyond

Advocate.com's itinerant opera critic recounts recent encounters with diva Susan Graham, legend Kitty Carlisle Hart, and Los Angeles Opera productions of Strauss and Verdi.

Around the world with the L.A. opera

A grand tour of recent productions, from the stunning to the disappointing, with stops in Troy, Seville, Paris, Sweden, Egypt, and Verona. Many unlucky lovers will not survive the trip.

'Roadhouse the Rock Opera' Wins With Laughs

Maybe nobody wins a fight, but a musical parody of the Patrick Swayze cult classic Road House should win over audiences.

Husband and Wife to Share Role in Trans Opera

American Opera Projects will stage the world premiere of As One, a chamber opera with two voices singing the role of a transgender protagonist.

Lucia Lucas Is Cracking Opera’s Trans Glass Ceiling

"You can just glue a beard on and I'll go out there and I'll sing and it's fine," the history-making opera singer says.

The 16 Steamiest Gay Sex Scenes in Soap Operas

Soap operas paved the way for same-sex love on television. Here's a brief history.

Transgender Actor Joins Cast of Popular Soap Opera

Actor Scott Turner Schofield has joined the cast of The Bold and the Beautiful.

Oscar Wilde Opera Makes East Coast Premiere

Out countertenor David Daniels stars as Wilde in Opera Philadelphia's staging of Oscar.

The Blind Opera Singer Who More Should Hear

Life hasn't been easy for blind opera singer Laurie Rubin, but she's got the fortitude to power through.

Howard Shore s Fly Opera Goes Splat!

Just what is opera? Is it merely a play set to music? It is that, certainly, but this definition seems hardly satisfactory. Is it merely a theatrical entertainment with good tunes? Some operas do fit this description, but this also seems to miss the mark. Opera, as an art form, is a dramatic entertainment in which the music should enhance the drama -- and that (sadly) explains the failure of Shore's new work.