UA Opera Theater opens its 2022-23 season this weekend with a production Director Cynthia Stokes says is the most perfect opera ever written. Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro” (The Marriage of Figaro) is ...

Così fan tutte is an Italian-language opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart first performed on January 26, 1790 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria. The libretto was written by Lorenzo ...

Mozart was improbably transported to the Roaring ’20s in Virginia Opera’s “Così fan tutte” this past weekend at Norfolk’s Harrison Opera House. While shifted in time, good Mozart (and this is good), ...

Juilliard Opera will present Mozart’s Così fan tutte on November 18, 21, and 23 at Juilliard’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater. Mo Zhou, who was a Juilliard Marcus Institute Opera Directing Fellow, sets this ...

Let no one call these nuptials a “marriage of convenience.” Ending a season of pandemic mayhem with the greatest classical opera buffa (and many say the greatest opera, period) requires crowd control ...

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 Marriage of Figaro, Mozart’s beloved opera of amorous lovers, mistaken identities, and affairs of the heart, is replete with warmth, lyricism, and a touch of sweetness. Though there is formal ...

The playwright Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793) was a prolific opera librettist and is often credited with developing opera buffa as a genre. It’s an area of his work that is worthy of study but here we take ...