Most opera companies have no compunction about delving into the lighter world of operetta. And why should they? The operetta repertoire abounds in splendid mixes of music and words to complement ...

OPERA San Antonio (OSA), in collaboration with the Classical Music Institute (CMI), will fill the Tobin Center with jaunty jigs and moving ballads in its two-performance run of The Pirates of Penzance ...

While much of the opera world was reeling from the pandemic, the Opera Company of Middlebury was exploring the world of opera as video entertainment. Eight months ago, it released a 10-minute, ...

Things are fiscally tight in Pontevedro, the fictional Balkan principality, unless its ambassador to France can persuade the widow Hanna Glawari to keep her fortune in the country and save it from ...

IN the late 1940s, a group of singers gathered on Sunday afternoons in the living room of Eleanor Miller, a music teacher at Kinkaid School. Arthur Goddard, then at the start of a long teaching and ...

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OSWEGO, N.Y. — During World War II, nearly 1,000 Jewish refugees who had escaped the Holocaust were brought to the United States and given safe haven at an Army post in Upstate New York. Fearing that ...

Wherever there was opera, operetta or song in the Pacific Northwest, you could count on finding Hans Wolf — usually on the conductor’s podium, with a bounce in his baton and a twinkle in his eye. The ...

The Metropolitan Opera will be celebrating New Year's Eve with Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow in a new production starring soprano Fleming. But its greatest incarnations have been on film. This is ...