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 ...

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 ...

Light Opera Works presents the Johann Strauss operetta DIE FLEDERMAUS (in English) with a 30-piece orchestra, December 26, 2016- January 1, 2017, at Cahn Auditorium in Evanston. Husband and wife meet ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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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 ...

The Marches Choir will be joined by opera singers from Aberystwyth while local professional soprano Caroline Clarke will be the guest star performer. Viva Opera! at the ballroom at Walcot Hall, ...