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The late Col. Jim Thompson, America’s longest-held prisoner of war, was a captive for nearly nine years during the Vietnam War. Thompson broke his back when his plane crashed in South Vietnam on March 26, 1964. For most of the next decade, he was imprisoned in a 2-by-5-foot cage too small for him to sit or lie down. He was beaten, choked, and hanged by his thumbs. He kept himself alive by ...

Baylor Opera Theatre will stage Federico Moreno Torroba’s 1932 opera “Luisa Fernanda,” the first Spanish language opera that the Baylor opera program has performed, from Feb. 1-4.

Jan. 26

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The great opera singer Luciano Pavarotti once said: “Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.”

Concerts, plays, art, you name it. Theres plenty to do here in the Triad.

Set in a grand overarching white structure with a spiral staircase in the middle of the stage, romance and tragedy come together in a new rendition of the operatic masterpiece Roméo et Juliette, in which a band of international artists endeavor to add their fresh interpretations to the classic saga.