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Ariadne auf Naxos, which opens this year’s Hong Kong Arts Festival, pits highbrow opera against lowbrow commedia dell’arte, with powerful vocal performances and a strangely monochromatic design.

On a stage covered in thousands of silk carnations, a beguiling cast of 20 explore fear, fun, control, bunny-hopping and onions, ending ultimately in hope

Expectations of romance and beauty are juxtaposed with discomfiting acts of humiliation, punishment and pain, writes Donald Hutera

Hundreds of people packed Mission Santa Clara to celebrate the life of the Saratoga businessman and philanthropist.

Winemaker says only 20% of expected fruit has been harvested.

Winemaker says only 20% of expected fruit has been harvested.

There's finally a good place to take visitors who want to get a glimpse of Silicon Valley.

There's finally a good place to take visitors who want to get a glimpse of Silicon Valley.

There's finally a good place to take visitors who want to get a glimpse of Silicon Valley.

Tanztheater Wuppertal returns to the Brooklyn Academy of Music for the first time in six years with “Água,” a long, whimsical work from 2001.