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.

Opera Orlando artistic director Grant Preisser had a nifty idea: There are two shortish operas, both set in a town square in Sicily, both taking place in a single day and both dealing with love and ...

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 ...

LEBANON, N.H. Verdi's opera "Falstaff" combines Shakespeare's character of "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and "King Henry IV" to create one of the very few comedies in the golden age of Romantic opera.

Among the many reasons “The Barber of Seville” opera is hugely popular worldwide, here are three: Its music is instantly familiar, thanks to its usage in the 1950 Bugs Bunny cartoon “Rabbit of Seville ...

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If only Chris Johnson's eyebrows could talk. The Billings native, who performs as Sgt. Belcore in Rimrock Opera's production "The Elixir of Love," conveys such snide arrogance with those expressive ...