The operatization of Kurt Vonnegut’s play “Happy Birthday, Wanda June” has an odd and interesting effect: It humanizes a cartoon. And in its world premiere via Indianapolis Opera Sept. 16-18 at the ...

Maria Callas—or Maria Anna Cecilia Sofia Kalogeropoulos—was born in New York City on December 2. 1923. She was a supernova who blazed across the opera world (and beyond) and it will never be the same.

What can you get as a birthday present for a man who already has two concert halls with his name on them? For Henry Segerstrom, you get America’s diva, Renée Fleming, to make her debut in Renée and ...