As the saying goes, “Italians are born actors.” But Italians have no monopoly on this talent. In a review of an opera ...

In the spring of 2020, Askren created and hosted the mixed-media children's edutainment show MaestraMagic! with her daughter Lily. Inspired by PBS' Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and Leonard Bernstein's ...

Today's chaotic, vengeful political environment makes the odd-couple friendship of Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg seem quaint. Scalia, the thundering originalist, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

La Scuola degli Amanti - The School for Lovers - was always the subtitle of Mozart's and librettist Lorenzo da Ponte's third collaboration together, Così fan Tutte. Director Gisela Cardenas and ...

Detroit Historical Museum's "Heroes vs. Villains" exhibit opens Saturday, exploring Detroit's comic book legacy. The Macomb Symphony Orchestra celebrates Star Wars Day with a John Williams performance ...

Florentine Opera is staging Derrick Wang's comic opera "Scalia/Ginsburg" in a fitting location: a courtroom in Marquette University's Law School's Lubar Center. In some kind of cosmic bardo, the ...

Have you heard of The Escapist? He is an anti-fascist superhero created by two Jewish cousins, Sam Clay from Brooklyn and artist Joe Kavalier, who escaped to New York from Nazi-occupied Prague just ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — The only problem with the Opera Saratoga season is that it’s too short. In only two weeks, the company is offering only four productions of “La Vie Parisienne,” five ...

Florentine Opera is performing the comic opera "Scalia/Ginsburg" at Marquette Law School. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spoke at the dedication of the Marquette Law School building in 2010. Two ...