Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. "The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death." So said Oscar Wilde's ...

Austin Opera continues to make great progress in its reinvention as one of the most innovative opera companies in the country. In review of its landmark 2018-2019 Season, it is proud to report ...

Nabucco (Nebuchadnezzar) is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed in 1841 by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera. The libretto is based on biblical books of Jeremiah ...

Cavalleria rusticana (Italian for "rustic chivalry") is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 short story ...

If you think that opera is archaic and unsexy, the first-ever Fringe show from Opera Orlando will blow your … mind. The Companion and Safe Word, a pair of dirty-minded miniature operas from Three Way, ...

Even if you have never listened to an opera, you’ll probably recognize the music. Be it the unforgettable opening of The Barber of Seville (“Figaro, Figaro, Figaro”) or the famously sultry intro to ...

Barbara Lynne Jamison has been in Louisville only a few weeks and there's still plenty of unpacking left to do at her Old Louisville home. But Jamison has other, equally important, priorities. Jamison ...

Most disappointing, I thought, was the cliched staging and the way that director James Robinson had failed to encourage even a singer as consummate on stage as Nicole Cabell to find a convincing body ...

Opera is notoriously an entertainment for white people; audiences from the Met to the smallest workshop company are among the least diverse for all the arts. But this summer’s New York-adjacent ...

Both dramas tell “gritty tales of small-town love affairs, jealousy and retribution that shake their communities.” Imagine Page Six and TMZ reports scored by the nineteenth century Italian maestros.