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 ...

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, ...

The latest offering from the ever-adventurous Opera Parallèle — a production of the comic opera “Flight” that ran for three performances over the weekend at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts — had ...

Even by the standards of opera, an art form not known for its brevity, some epics test the endurance of audiences and performers alike. Consider “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg,” a comic opera by ...

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 ...

The double bill at Kirkland House is a perfect escape for anyone tired of studying. And who isn't? The project was cooked up by seniors to fill up their free springtime, and under the leadership of ...

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

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Love, hate and hot sauce are themes of a 19th century comic opera being produced this week as a kickoff to New Orleans’ 300th anniversary. It’s also the 150th anniversary for ...

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 ...

It didn’t take long for Elizabeth Biddle ’13 to fall in love with Gilbert & Sullivan. One turn in the role of Edith, from the opera duo’s The Pirates of Penzance, a Smith theatre production in 2011, ...