Maurice Sendak had many reasons to be unhappy. He was born to Polish Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn in 1928, and his childhood was defined by the deaths of his extended family in the Holocaust, a loss ...

Famous for his wild and rumpus-filled take on children's books, Maurice Sendak also cultivated a deep love of opera and classical music that he channeled into designing sets and costumes for ...

DENVER -Â When Kevin Newbury was a kid, his dad took him to the movies. Newbury was expecting Disney; he got Mozart. “It was Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Magic Flute,’ and I fell in love with the opera,” says ...

A new exhibit highlights Sendak’s set and costume designs for opera and ballet. By the 1970s, Maurice Sendak was one of the greatest living writers and illustrators of children’s books. He had written ...

Although best known for his compelling, wild-thing-filled illustrated children’s books, Maurice Sendak, who died Tuesday at 83, also left his mark in the opera field. Baltimore audiences had an ...

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FOR MAURICE SENDAK and Tony Kushner, collaboration grew out of friendship. Sendak, 77, most famous for writing and illustrating “Where the Wild Things Are” and “In the Night Kitchen,” and Kushner, the ...

Blessed indeed is the opera company that can launch a new season with praise from City Hall, an enchanting new work on stage and several thousand obviously happy adults and children filling every seat ...

NEW YORK -- Maurice Sendak, whose drawings may sometimes scare children but who always wants what's best for them, adorns the witch's house in "Hansel und Gretel" with fruit and vegetables along with ...

LOS ANGELES — Maurice Sendak, the children’s book illustrator and author whose unsentimental approach to storytelling revolutionized the genre and whose best-known tale was the dark fantasy “Where the ...

He had already been proclaimed “the Picasso of children’s books” by Time magazine when Maurice Sendak, then in his 30s, wrote and illustrated “Where the Wild Things Are,” a dark fantasy that became ...