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One of the world's most famous and romantic operas will open the Kentucky Opera's 2022-23 season this fall. Five performances of Giacomo Puccini’s "La bohème" will launch the 70th anniversary season ...
With a new opera season starting, at least via streaming or tourism, it might be a good time to ask what opera is. Opera is like the movies. There’s the broad term of movies but within that are dozens ...
The introduction of American composer Samuel Barber’s riveting first opera, “Vanessa,” was marked by uncommon splendor: It had its premiere by the venerable Metropolitan Opera in January 1958, won a ...
The English National Opera's new production of Handel's romantic epic, Rodelinda, has opened at the Coliseum, London, to positive reviews. Written in 1725, Rodelinda is regarded as one of Handel's ...
When San Diego Opera opens Giacomo Puccini’s beloved romantic opera “Tosca” on March 25, soprano Michelle Bradley will be performing the role of Tosca for only the second time in her professional ...
Martha is a romantic comic opera in four acts by Friedrich von Flotow set to a German libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Riese and based on a story by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges. Flotow had ...
Reasons you’re not going to hear this couple yell at one another. Daniela Mack and Aleks Shrader were in Seattle Opera’s “Beatrice and Benedict” in 2018. (Photo by Jacob F. Lucas) A.) They’re happily ...
“The Elixir of Love” is the comedic tale of two men vying for a woman’s love, although it isn’t a modern rom-com. It’s an opera originally performed in 1832. The Idaho Falls Opera Theatre will bring ...