Light Opera Works presents the Johann Strauss operetta DIE FLEDERMAUS (in English) with a 30-piece orchestra, December 26, 2016- January 1, 2017, at Cahn Auditorium in Evanston. Husband and wife meet ...

The MET stages a silly romance in Lehar’s ‘The Merry Widow’ At 11 a.m. Saturday, the august Metropolitan Opera bravely will transmit Franz Lehár’s “The Merry Widow” to the world. A warning: If you ...

Maryland Opera's fifth season opens with "Ritorna Vincitor!" featuring a return to fully staged productions with Act 2 of Die Fledermaus plus famous entrance arias and scenes on Saturday, November 12, ...

Having gone on an unscheduled rant about opera and higher education let us return to the performance of Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief by Point Loma Opera Theatre. Director, Jordan ...

IN the late 1940s, a group of singers gathered on Sunday afternoons in the living room of Eleanor Miller, a music teacher at Kinkaid School. Arthur Goddard, then at the start of a long teaching and ...

The plot: A girl who thinks everyone is in love with her. Sounds like someone you know right? That was the case for John Spartan who co-wrote “Lindarella’s List” with Scott Farrell, which will be ...

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Operetta is a type of opera where the audience is invited to a lovely mixture of romantic sentiments, comedy and parodies of serious operas. Abundant in exquisite music and a good dosage of dialogue, ...

It is one of the very rare occasions when a Western opera gem has been translated into Arabic and performed on a Cairo stage. On four evenings, 22, 23, 25 and 26 February, 'The Merry Widow,' an ...

Karl Kraus, pointed satirist of early 20th century Austro-German affairs, is reputed to have remarked that in Berlin, things were serious but not desperate, whereas in Vienna they were desperate but ...