To reach the prompter's box at the home of the San Francisco Opera, Matthew Piatt heads under the stage and walks down a long, narrow passageway. Then he shimmies up a metal ladder. "I always have to ...

When a baritone goes "cold" and forgets a line, Jonathan Khuner is there. When a soprano gets lost in her character and sings ahead of the beat, Khuner reins her in. He's the prompter at the San ...

NEW YORK, March 20 (UPI) -- Tenor Gary Lehman fell into the prompter's box, causing Tuesday night's performance of "Tristan und Isolde" at New York's Metropolitan Opera to stop cold. The New York ...

One of the world's greatest living composers, John Adams, has a new opera, and the prompter keeps Anthony and Cleopatra from flying off the rails. The hidden world of an opera prompter To reach the ...