Premiering in London’s West End in 1986, The Phantom of the Opera is a musical based on a 1910 novel by Gaston Leroux. The music
A comedy in two acts, H.M.S. Pinafore was the fourth operatic collaboration between composer Arthur Sullivan and librettist W. S. Gilbert. It premiered in London
Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), is widely considered a masterpiece of comedic opera, and 200 years after its initial premiere in Rome
With a spectacular outdoor staging Opera Australia have produced a colorful and mesmerizing Carmen. This four-act French opera, based on a novella by Prosper Mérimée,
Today’s chat relates to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera buffa Così fan tutte (“Women are like that”), libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, which had its world
Today was supposed to be another Opera Chat, and while we watched Così fan tutte a few weeks back we haven’t been able to finish
Fidelio is the only opera penned by Ludwig van Beethoven. This Theater an der Wien production was filmed without an audience during lockdown in 2020.
Based on an 1887 play by Victorien Sardou, Tosca, with music by Giacomo Puccini and libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica originally premiered in
Full disclosure: I grew up with opera, it’s in my blood. Not in the sense that my parents are opera singers, they are not, but