In “Great Scott,” the opera that made its West Coast premiere Saturday at the San Diego Civic Theatre, a young stage manager tells an older classics-loving conductor that opera is dead. Whether the ...

3 CHEESE FRIES & CHILI DIPS Will Come to Fairfield and Westport As noted above, while it does reflect the attitudes of the time it was written, some of the plot of A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO ...

A costume sketch for the character Moore from “The Dragon of Wantley” by Seth Bodie, costume designer. Poking fun at the lofty conventions of opera is a practice that’s almost as old as opera itself.

The fires of love among Manuela, Jose Maria and Rosario were first ignited on the streets of Madrid during the golden era of zarzuela, Spanish lyric comedy operetta of the 1890s. The romantic and ...

You have to be on your best behavior at the opera. It’s not like seeing a show at the Paramount or the 5th Avenue, when you can often waltz in late, guided by an ...

I was sitting at the opera last night, laughing out loud (repeatedly) at the world premiere of John Musto's comedy The Inspector, when a question came to mind: What happened to all the funny operas?

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Malmö Opera had their opening night of Funny Girl with the restriction of ...

Opera Naples pokes fun at the larger-than-life opera world in its latest production. “The Four Note Opera” is a humorous, one-hour spoof of opera and its many conventions, composed by former Village ...

The sheer familiarity of The Magic Flute, Mozart’s most-performed opera, can blind one to its inherent oddness. It draws on a range of influences, from ancient Egyptian symbolism and freemasonry to ...