In March of 1971, the halls of Korah Collegiate echoed with music and laughter as the Sault Opera Society staged Johann ...

Mannes Opera will present the U.S. premiere of The Silent Serenade, a rarely performed operetta by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, ...

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 ...

For Florida Grand Opera, a new era is underway, as artistic director Maria Todaro vows to keep her promise that she’s not ...

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 ...

The premiere of the original COVID-19 musical extravaganza you didn't know you needed, Lend Me a Roll; or The Woeful Diarrheic, has premiered today! Like many in the performing arts industry, composer ...

The MET stages a silly romance in Lehar’s ‘The Merry Widow’ At 11 a.m. Saturday, the august Metropolitan Opera bravely will transmit Franz Lehár’s “The Merry Widow” to the world. A warning: If you ...

THE BASICS: IOLANTHE, OR THE PEER AND THE PERI, a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta, directed by Lisa Berglund. 11/16-23 with one remaining performance at 2:00 this Sunday 11/23. Presented by Opera-Lytes at ...

Growing up in central Ohio in the 1990s and early 2000s, Adam Cioffari remembers attending operetta after operetta. The genre — distinct from traditional operas for its lighter music and storylines — ...

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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 ...