The great books of the past, which have been in danger of falling by the wayside as people read less and less, are reentering the zeitgeist.

The Metropolitan Opera has invited 70 influencers to help convince a younger, online audience that opera isn’t scary or even ...

Two comic operas presented by the UAF Music Department on Sunday, Nov. 16 at Davis Concert Hall, were a fun introduction to an art form that is usually dramatic and intense. These operas were short, ...

Just forget the glass slippers (they must have been excruciating to wear), and for goodness’ sake throw out that moldy pumpkin coach. Gioachino Rossini’s (1792-1868) “La Cenerentola,” though funny (it ...

On Cendrillon, at the Opéra Royal de Versailles. But Cendrillon is not a children’s opera. Musically and structurally it behaves like other topflight Rossini comic operas, with scintillating ensembles ...

If you have to meet pirates some day, hope they’re as terrible at pirating as the titular swashbucklers in “The Pirates of Penzance,” the 1879 comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan on stage at Seattle ...

Giacomo Puccini’s beloved one-act comic opera “Gianni Schicci” is coming to the Bornemann Theatre in San Marcos for three enchanting performances Sept. 5-7. In this production, Genesis Opera Theatre’s ...

Tyrese Byrd as Ubaldo, Botond Pál as Rinaldo, and Emily Helenbrook as the title character in Opera Neo’s “Armida.” (Photo courtesy Gary Payne Photography) What was it about the story of Armida and ...

Today's chaotic, vengeful political environment makes the odd-couple friendship of Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg seem quaint. Scalia, the thundering originalist, and ...

WHEN: 8 p.m. Thursday, July 31; Monday, Aug. 4; Saturday, Aug. 9; Tuesday, Aug. 12; Saturday, Aug. 16; Friday, Aug. 22. WHERE: Santa Fe Opera, 301 Opera Drive, Santa ...

Florentine Opera is staging Derrick Wang's comic opera "Scalia/Ginsburg" in a fitting location: a courtroom in Marquette University's Law School's Lubar Center. In some kind of cosmic bardo, the ...

The only problem with the Opera Saratoga season is that it’s too short. In only two weeks the company is offering only our productions of “La Vie Parisienne,” five productions of “She Loves Me,” and ...