As a friend of Kurt Vonnegut, Butler University music professor Richard Auldon Clark knew to expect coffee or scotch when meeting with the iconic author at his Manhattan brownstone. But Vonnegut had ...

The Kurt Vonnegut Opera world premiere of Happy Birthday, Wanda June takes place September 16 at the The Schrott Center for the Arts.

Kurt Vonnegut, right, talks with producer-director Mark Robson in Hollywood, Calif., on April 27, 1971, during the filming of Vonnegut's first play, "Happy Birthday, Wanda June." (AP) This weekend, an ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A chorus of “Happy Birthday” is in order. The Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center is 50. It opened on Sept. 16, 1966, with a performance of Samuel Barber’s “Anthony and Cleopatra,” ...