Opera Iowa brings “The Billy Goats Gruff” to the Ames Library — with free fun, big music and a troll who learns kindness.

KEARNEY - The first- and third-graders filed into the music room eyeing the man with the guitar and banjo. "Teaching kindergartners, I learned it's important to watch kids while playing," he said ...

Shana Blake Hill's introduction to opera didn't exactly enthrall her. "My parents were great opera fans and I hated it for many years," says Hill, 31, of Los Angeles. "Mainly because they were ...