Most opera companies have no compunction about delving into the lighter world of operetta. And why should they? The operetta repertoire abounds in splendid mixes of music and words to complement ...

OPERA San Antonio (OSA), in collaboration with the Classical Music Institute (CMI), will fill the Tobin Center with jaunty jigs and moving ballads in its two-performance run of The Pirates of Penzance ...

The MET stages a silly romance in Lehar’s ‘The Merry Widow’ At 11 a.m. Saturday, the august Metropolitan Opera bravely will transmit Franz Lehár’s “The Merry Widow” to the world. A warning: If you ...

Operetta is a type of opera where the audience is invited to a lovely mixture of romantic sentiments, comedy and parodies of serious operas. Abundant in exquisite music and a good dosage of dialogue, ...

A new edition of Puccini's score springs to life in a meticulously prepared Opera Rara concert performance at the Barbican.

While much of the opera world was reeling from the pandemic, the Opera Company of Middlebury was exploring the world of opera as video entertainment. Eight months ago, it released a 10-minute, ...

IN the late 1940s, a group of singers gathered on Sunday afternoons in the living room of Eleanor Miller, a music teacher at Kinkaid School. Arthur Goddard, then at the start of a long teaching and ...

Things are fiscally tight in Pontevedro, the fictional Balkan principality, unless its ambassador to France can persuade the widow Hanna Glawari to keep her fortune in the country and save it from ...

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The plot: A girl who thinks everyone is in love with her. Sounds like someone you know right? That was the case for John Spartan who co-wrote “Lindarella’s List” with Scott Farrell, which will be ...