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Giacomo Puccini’s beloved one-act comic opera “Gianni Schicci” is coming to the Bornemann Theatre in San Marcos for three enchanting performances Sept. 5-7. In this production, Genesis Opera Theatre’s ...

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 ...

You might need your head examined if you called contemporary opera in the United States a successful and popular art form. Because of the costs of mounting a production, audience preferences and ...

CHICAGO—It’s been almost a half-century since the Lyric Opera of Chicago presented “The Daughter of the Regiment.” It’s hard to believe that the Lyric waited 50 years to reprise Gaetano Donizetti’s ...

Images for USCS's 2011 production of Albert Herring. Photo: Steve DiBartolomeo, Westside Studio Images, Santa Cruz, CA. http://www.westsidestudioimages.com The UC ...

The Lee University Opera Theatre, directed by James Frost, will present Giacomo Puccini’s comic opera, “Gianni Schicchi” for this year’s main stage production. Performances will take place in the ...

Originally premiered in 1782 in St. Petersburg (34 years before Rossini's famous version), this opera was composed for the court of Empress Catherine II (1729–1796) and quickly became a success. Based ...

How do you turn a story everyone already thinks they know into something that feels new — especially when that story is as familiar as Wukong Thrice Confronts Lady Whitebone, a classic episode of ...

Natalya Pavlova is a beautiful young woman who sings with intelligence, a fine legato and some excellent phrasing. Her voice lacks both an Italianate sound and bloom in its upper register, but still, ...