ADRIAN — For more than 20 years now, children’s — and even some adults’ — imaginations have been captured by a cartoon series about SpongeBob SquarePants, a sponge who lives in an undersea world with ...

When an opera company makes the decision to radically update a creation from the past and superimpose a stridently pointed contemporary political message, that company is entering risky territory.

Too briefly seen on its first appearances in Paris, Manchester and London, Damon Albarn’s cartoon opera was credited with introducing a new audience to an art form often seen as elitist. Now it’s back ...