Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 25—In the age of social media and technology, FUSION's latest show by Gonzo Opera — "#trialbytext" — asks audience members to ...

“Carmen,” Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera, can be a good first opera for novices. It’s a gripping story about vivid characters; it’s longish but not taxingly — about 210 minutes with intermissions (call it ...

The stereotype with opera is that productions are sung in Italian and are tragic. Well, that's not so with every opera. "Die Fledermaus," aka "The Bat," is a hilarious German comedy that is delivered ...

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 ...

Verdi’s final opera brings the season to a lively close with "Falstaff," a comic tale inspired by Shakespeare’s "The Merry Wives of Windsor." The mischievous Sir John Falstaff’s schemes to court two ...

The answers are in Marx in London, my new opera opening in Theater Bonn on 9 December. If the plot sounds a bit like Richard Bean’s play Young Marx, that’s because at one point I asked Richard to ...

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 ...

Opera Colorado is opening it's 2024/25 season with the sharp, funny romantic comedy "Daughter of the Regiment." This Italian opera is set in France among the 21st French Regiment. The soldiers find ...

One of Cyprus’ most celebrated cultural events is preparing to return this September, bringing romance, comedy and world-class music to one of the island’s most iconic settings.The Pafos Aphrodite ...