Paul Potts’s biggest dream is to become an opera singer. His entire life he has lived, dreamed and breathed opera – from the posters on his walls to the music continually sounding in his ears. In Potts’s mind, life is an opera, and his opera’s climax is just over the horizon. Based on a true story, “One Chance,” directed by David Frankel, follows the life of shopkeeper Paul Potts, an awkward, nervous man constantly bullied for his size and love of opera. By all outward appear

Ben Neumayer, a senior who studies opera at Belmont, performs in multiple shows a year but found his actual voice during musical theater in high school. Neumayer and the rest of the majors will be performing the Marriage of Figaro Nov. 8-10. #Belmontmusic #belmontopera #opera #singing

While most Belmont students will learn about the French Revolution and its effects in a general education history class, this year students will be able to experience the “Reign of Terror” on stage. “Dialogues of the Carmelites,” a 1956 French Opera based on the Carmelite order of nuns during the French Revolution, will be shown Nov. 8, 9, 10 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 11 at 2 p.m. in Belmont’s Troutt Theater. “This is a true story and easy to emotionally connect with,” said Bevin

The silver rush in Colorado during the 1880s sets the stage for “The Ballad of Baby Doe,” an opera playing in the Troutt Theatre Nov. 11-14. And just to point out, the opera isn’t about a baby deer. “The Ballad of Baby Doe,” written by John Latouche with music by Douglas Moore, is the most successful American opera of the 20th century. The opera is based on historical people and events in American history. It follows the story of Baby Doe, affectionately called the miner’s sw