The New York Times

America Needs Its Own Comic Opera Company

There is no house in the United States dedicated to presenting works from a prominent corner of homegrown music theater repertory. By Seth Colter Walls See more of our coverage in your search ...
Chicago Tribune

Riffing on Rossini, Lyric Opera’s ‘Factotum’ started as a South Side Chicago comic opera. But its creators had bigger ideas.

Sometime around his fourth “The Barber of Seville,” Chicago-based operatic baritone Will Liverman realized he’d been hounded by the same “nugget of an idea” for years. That idea was inspired by the ...
BroadwayWorld

Review: LA TRAVIATA at Comic Opera Of Berlin - Attractive Cast Flounders in an Idiotic Production of Verdi's Tragic Love Story

Natalya Pavlova is a beautiful young woman who sings with intelligence, a fine legato and some excellent phrasing. Her voice lacks both an Italianate sound and bloom in its upper register, but still, ...
news.ucsc

Benjamin Britten’s Comic Opera ‘Albert Herring’ at UCSC–June 2-5

Images for USCS's 2011 production of Albert Herring. Photo: Steve DiBartolomeo, Westside Studio Images, Santa Cruz, CA. http://www.westsidestudioimages.com The UC ...
Smith College

A Comic Opera About Comic Opera’s Greatest

It didn’t take long for Elizabeth Biddle ’13 to fall in love with Gilbert & Sullivan. One turn in the role of Edith, from the opera duo’s The Pirates of Penzance, a Smith theatre production in 2011, ...