It’s an opera with music so catchy it’s been featured in everything from movies to cartoons and remains popular more than 100 years after it was written. KIRO Newsradio’s Heather Bosch spoke with key ...
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, ...
With the desks cleared out and chairs pushed aside, Foxboro Auditorium was transformed into a miniature concert hall Friday night for Brown Opera Productions' chamber performance premiere of "Don ...
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.
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 ...
B.J. Ward loves opera. No, really. She just likes to goose it every now and then. With all those melodramatic plots stuffed with suffering heroines, what’s not to tease? Her “Stand-Up Opera” gives ...
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 ...
While savoring the wit of John Musto's brand new opera The Inspector, one can't help but wonder: Where have all the comic operas gone? I was sitting at the opera last night, laughing out loud ...
In a healthy way, the recent musical doubleheader at Ventura College was ideal for those who don’t like--or are at least skeptical of--opera. The Ventura College Opera Workshop wisely chose a path of ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. We all know the fairytale where a bullied girl led by her kindness and magic ...