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 ...

Uzeyir Hajibayli's immortal operetta "The Cloth Peddler" has once again presented at the Baku Music Academy's Opera Studio in ...

Operetta is a type of opera where the audience is invited to a lovely mixture of romantic sentiments, comedy and parodies of serious operas. Abundant in exquisite music and a good dosage of dialogue, ...

Doting papas and mamas who wish to mold their brat in tune to their hearts’ desire would want to make of the young teener a cultured gentleman-in-progress who can listen to classical music with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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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