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 ...

Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Falstaff” turned 124 years old this month, but in some ways, its return to the San Diego Civic Theatre on Saturday night seems right on time. Over the past two years, San Diego ...

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?

If you are offended by four-letter words strung into operatic passages, images of New Testament figures parading their insecurities on stage, and God, in person, dressed as Elvis in sequins and ...

Twice a year the Michigan State University College of Music hosts an opera at Fairchild Theatre. The spring semester show was performed March 26-30. Directed by MSU professor of voice Melanie Helton, ...

This bittersweet comedy is the story of the indomitable Fanny Brice, a girl from the Lower East Side who dreamed of a life on the stage. Everyone told her she'd never be a star, but then something ...

Steven Williamson rehearses ANDY: A Popera, which opens as part of the Fringe Festival on September 10. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) ANDY: A Popera combines video technology and theater. (Kimberly ...

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.

NEW HAVEN >> It’s no mystery that Ted Huffman has become a successful director of opera, which he will do Feb. 13-15 when the Yale Opera program brings one of history’s most popular operas, “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 ...

That it involves footballers and WAGs are the only specifics director Gavin Quinn is willing to reveal about his updated version… That it involves footballers and WAGs are the only specifics director ...