Hear the word “Belgian” and where does your mind go to? Belgian ale? Hercule Poirot? Belgian horses? Belgian chocolate? How about the Belgian sport of professional finch calling? No really, there is ...
It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama, and music and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit-enable them to ...
Giacomo Puccini’s beloved one-act comic opera “Gianni Schicci” is coming to the Bornemann Theatre in San Marcos for three enchanting performances Sept. 5-7. In this production, Genesis Opera Theatre’s ...
There is no house in the United States dedicated to presenting works from a prominent corner of homegrown music theater repertory. By Seth Colter Walls Whenever I’m trying to sell a friend on a night ...
Florentine Opera is staging Derrick Wang's comic opera "Scalia/Ginsburg" in a fitting location: a courtroom in Marquette University's Law School's Lubar Center. In some kind of cosmic bardo, the ...
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — The only problem with the Opera Saratoga season is that it’s too short. In only two weeks, the company is offering only four productions of “La Vie Parisienne,” five ...
Sometime around his fourth “The Barber of Seville,” Chicago-based operatic baritone Will Liverman realized he’d been hounded by the same “nugget of an idea” for years. That idea was inspired by the ...
It didn’t take long for Elizabeth Biddle ’13 to fall in love with Gilbert & Sullivan. One turn in the role of Edith, from the opera duo’s The Pirates of Penzance, a Smith theatre production in 2011, ...
You lug your wicker hamper across the stiletto-punctured lawn and bag a spot beside the ha-ha. You say “ha-ha” a lot because this is the only chance you get. Smoothing your frock or dinner jacket, you ...