Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. "The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death." So said Oscar Wilde's ...

Austin Opera continues to make great progress in its reinvention as one of the most innovative opera companies in the country. In review of its landmark 2018-2019 Season, it is proud to report ...

Cavalleria rusticana (Italian for "rustic chivalry") is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 short story ...

La Gioconda is an opera in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli set to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito (as Tobia Gorrio), based on Angelo, Tyrant of Padua, a play in prose by Victor Hugo, dating from ...

A scene from Opera Colorado's 2018 production of "Falstaff" at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in Denver. “Falstaff” holds a special place in the career of legendary opera composer Giuseppe Verdi. It ...

2018 was busy at the San Francisco Opera. Not really surprising, since it was the first season fully programmed (with one exception) by the administration of general director Matthew Shilvock. Last ...

If you think that opera is archaic and unsexy, the first-ever Fringe show from Opera Orlando will blow your … mind. The Companion and Safe Word, a pair of dirty-minded miniature operas from Three Way, ...

Barbara Lynne Jamison has been in Louisville only a few weeks and there's still plenty of unpacking left to do at her Old Louisville home. But Jamison has other, equally important, priorities. Jamison ...

Even if you have never listened to an opera, you’ll probably recognize the music. Be it the unforgettable opening of The Barber of Seville (“Figaro, Figaro, Figaro”) or the famously sultry intro to ...

Both dramas tell “gritty tales of small-town love affairs, jealousy and retribution that shake their communities.” Imagine Page Six and TMZ reports scored by the nineteenth century Italian maestros.