I’m taking off to accompany Opera Theatre of St. Louis’s Tim O’Leary and OTSL patrons (and no, the paper isn’t paying for it!) on their weeklong journey to London and Ireland’s Wexford Festival.

I’ll cover the events for the A&E section,…

(Ken Howard photo)

Opera Theatre of St. Louis’ production of Richard Strauss’s Salome got a lot of attention last summer.

Now the production is open in San Francisco, and it’s getting even more. It has a new cast; from the sound of…

O'Leary

(This doesn’t appear on the Arts & Books homepage, and it was hard to find on the STLToday.com website - so I’m reposting it here. Special bonus: A nice color photo of Tim O’Leary.)

Stephen Lord

Opera Theatre of St. Louis music director Stephen Lord and artistic director James Robinson have both earned accolades in the news media recently.

Lord, conducting Verdi’s “Rigoletto” at London’s English National Opera, has garnered particularly enthusiastic review. The esteemed critic…

(This didn’t make it onto the main “arts & books” page, so I’m putting it here for those who didn’t see the physical Sunday paper.)

‘Anna Karenina’ by David Carlson. Kelly Kaduce, Christine Abraham, Sarah Coburn, Rosalind Elias, Branson Jovanovich, Robert Gierlach,…

They’ve got the house and the yard; now Opera Theatre of St. Louis general director Timothy O’Leary and his wife, Kara, are expecting their first baby in mid-January.

Tim O’Leary says he found out during OTSL’s artists welcome party, when Kara…

There have been numerous significant changes at Opera Theatre of St. Louis in the last year.  Here’s one didn’t make the headlines, but is still significant: Richard Barger, OTSL’s director of operations, has moved to New York and Santa Fe…

Opera Theatre of St. Louis and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra are among the local arts groups which will each receive $50,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The grants are part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and…

Talk about timely: As Opera Theatre of St. Louis winds down its 2009 season, the setting of the fourth opera in this year’s repertoire - John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles - is about to reopen.

Built in 1770 in the palace…

The production of Richard Strauss’s “Salome” at Opera Theatre St. Louis makes breathtaking drama - taut, sexually fraught and bloody. Really, really bloody. Remember “The Lieutenant of Inishmore” at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis? We are close to “Inishmore” levels of blood.

How do…