OperaCréole and M.S. Rau partnered on November 14 to celebrate and share a preview of the upcoming opera “Morgiane.” Written by composer Edmond Dédé, the opera is “the earliest extant grand opera ...

A critic weighs San Francisco Playhouse's "M. Butterfly" against Pocket Opera's "Madame Butterfly," probing racism, desire and why Puccini still seduces.

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. The immediate question raised by turning David Henry Hwang’s superb play M. Butterfly into an opera is whether ...

NORTHAMPTON — As I walked and whistled out of the Academy of Music on Nov. 9, Able Seaman Paul Peelle — still made up for the stage and dressed in stripes of white and Royal Navy blue — reminded me of ...

Not many opera companies begin in high school auditoriums. In 1975, however, a high school auditorium was exactly where Valley Light Opera got its start. This weekend, the company will celebrate their ...

Opera Iowa brings “The Billy Goats Gruff” to the Ames Library — with free fun, big music and a troll who learns kindness.

Countertenor Kangmin Justin Kim as Song Liling and baritone Mark Stone as René Gallimard in rehearsal for 'M. Butterfly' at the Santa Fe Opera. Curtis Brown for the Santa Fe Opera SANTA FE, N.M. — In ...

The title characters are still impoverished and lost, but the Fargo-Moorhead Opera has swapped out the Black Forest setting of "Hansel and Gretel" for the vastness of the Dakota prairie set a century ...