Going to the opera is like having a separate browser just for porn: You do it because you’re married. But when my wife called me at work to say we had free tickets to something called Doctor Manhattan ...

The premiere of Meyerbeer's opera Robert le Diable was one of the most significant musical events of the 1830s. Ever since its appearance, it has been known that the work was based on an opéra comique ...

Marc Mauillon (remarkably, his first musical) makes for a slightly older, but nonetheless believable, Seymour, and Judith Fa is vocally impressive as Audrey, especially in "Somewhere That's Green" ...

Louis Langrée is gushing with enthusiasm as he talks about this weekend’s Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra presentation of Ambroise Thomas’ “Hamlet.” That’s hardly a surprise. Langrée, the CSO’s music ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In 1792-1793, between Lodoïska and Eliza, Luigi Cherubini wrote another opéra-comique, the three-act Koukourgi. This work was never performed ...

Last week, in Manhattan, the Little Opera of America, Inc., presented an Opera Comique, Mandragola. Those who attended were familiar with the Little Opera’s contention that the U. S. public will pay ...