His mother, an opera aficionado, named him after world-famous tenor Jan Peerce.

Even for someone who is not an opera aficionado, the collection of memorabilia crammed into her museum offers a fascinating window into a personality and an era.

Since then, Copeland has become quite the opera aficionado.

This month opera aficionados will not have to venture far to hear a live aria.

Critics and opera aficionados began calling her a bright new light on the vocal scene.

Although opera aficionados may have limited interest in bits of "Carmen" with solo instruments substituting for the voices, these are stirring performances.

Connecticut has found itself with about 7,000 new opera aficionados in recent weeks, and they are all between the ages of 5 and 12.

He is a man of means, an opera aficionado with musical nasal passages.

Students, outdoorsy types and caffeine-lovers hunker down at wooden tables in this been-there-forever hangout owned by an opera aficionado.

It is a famous moment, and opera aficionados know the lovers will end their duet at the close of Act I with a kiss.