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 ...

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 ...

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.

LEBANON, N.H. Verdi's opera "Falstaff" combines Shakespeare's character of "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and "King Henry IV" to create one of the very few comedies in the golden age of Romantic opera.

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 ...

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