Flurries of snow, accompanied by eerie, swooshing music, stream past a panoramic view dominated by an enormous mountain peak. A spectral chorus intones a few cryptic lines about life and death. Then, ...

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama, and music and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit-enable them to ...

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 Whenever I’m trying to sell a friend on a night ...

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 ...

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 ...

Georg Philipp Telemann’s overlooked intermezzo “Pimpinone” is being presented by the Boston Early Music Festival this weekend. By Oussama Zahr In the standard repertoire, comic opera more or less ...

You lug your wicker hamper across the stiletto-punctured lawn and bag a spot beside the ha-ha. You say “ha-ha” a lot because this is the only chance you get. Smoothing your frock or dinner jacket, you ...

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

The Tony- and Oscar-nominated actress joins a long list of actresses and opera greats who have enjoyed star turns in this larger-than-life non-singing role. While the Duchess only appears in the ...

Genesis Opera Theatre recently announced its upcoming production of Mozart’s timeless opera “The Magic Flute,” set to captivate audiences from Sept. 6-8 at STAR Repertory Theatre in Escondido. “The ...

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With more romantic rivalry than your average episode of “Love Island”, the plot of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” is surprisingly relatable even today. Originally written in the 18th century by ...