The composer Gabriela Lena Frank first met Frida Kahlo in the pages of a book. In the late 1970s, Frank’s mother, an immigrant from Peru, brought home an art history series from the free-books shelf ...

Returning from the dead, an aspiration devoutly to be wished by the living and the bereaved, permeates opera and theater. Billy Bigelow gets to come back in “Carousel.” In “The Flying Dutchman,” the ...