Opera News

It was so popular the first time, it's back for more. The Wichita Grand Opera's reviving its production of the Gilbert & Sullivan play "The Mikado." Click to read more about Gilbert and Sullivan But this time around, it won't be exactly the same.

This weekend's production of "The Pirates of Penzance" by Valley Light Opera at Amherst Regional High School celebrates two milestones - the 35th anniversary of the local opera and the 125th anniversary of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic.

Victor Hugo is one of the great jewels of French literature. It's sad that, in America at least, he's mostly thought of as the provider of plot lines for the musical Les Miserables and for Verdi operas.

Wichita Grand Opera is getting at look at what Light Opera Oklahoma does with Gilbert & Sullivan.

The Tri-Cities Opera hopes its mix of productions and cost- containment measures will lead to a successful 61st season.

Under a brilliant Texas sun, Dallasa s wealthiest arts patrons -- among them oilman Bruce Calder, mergers and acquisitions super-lawyer Hal Brierley and art collector and philanthropist John Dayton -- thronged the citya s fantastic new opera palazzo on Friday night for the premiere of its inaugural production, Verdia s a oeOtello.a Many women wore ...

SINGING Handel's Messiah with a shocking mohican haircut perhaps isn't the typical path towards a successful career in opera, but Alice Coote's punk phase did give her a taste for the theatrical.

It's the American dream for any girl who craves the spotlight - a rags-to-riches story, an overnight success, a star is born on the Great White Way in one transcendent performance.

Late in the second act of Rossini's "Tancredi," Ewa Podles lets forth a prolonged F below middle C - a note of such visceral power and purity that its resonance seems to pin the audience back in their seats.

West Wittering soprano Lisa Swayne will be helping Opera South celebrates its silver jubilee at its Trafalgar Night extravaganza, Sing A Song Of Empire on Saturday, October 24 at Branksome Place, Hindhead Road, Haslemere.

Craig Revel Horwood has taken some liberties with Gilbert and Sullivan's hit musical, but his new version of the Hot Mikado provides an evening of great fun and delightfully zany routines.

The return of Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor James Levine after back surgery has been delayed a second time.

Verdi saw the stuff of great literature for an opera when he first encountered Victor Hugo's failed play, 'Le roi s'amuse.' For a near-capacity audience Saturday night at the Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, the mournful opening notes of the trumpets probably tempted viewers to surmise that it was not going to turn out warm and fuzzy, and ...

A dramatic performance of Verdi's Otello opened the Dallas Opera's season on Friday night.

ROSSINI was only 21 when he wrote The Italian Girl in Algiers, a heady will-they-won't-they saga centred on the love life of the rich and powerful Mustafa, a story ripe for modernisation.

By ALAN PEPPARD / / The Dallas Morning News / apeppard@dallasnews.com apeppard@dallasnews.com Though the late Bill Winspear would have loved last week's grand opening at the AT&T Performing Arts Center, he wrote that $42 million check because he was an opera fan who wanted to liberate the Dallas Opera from Fair Park Music Hall.

The Young People's Opera Society of B.C. - " which, in earlier presentations, has explored the realms of fantasy and celebrated B.C. history - " will take audiences on a trip to the early days of the opera with its upcoming production, The Faerie Queene, at Surrey Arts Centre Oct.

Mark Kanny can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7877. Everyone ends up laughing in Giuseppe Verdi's "Falstaff." One of opera's mere handful of genuinely funny comic operas, it was the improbable farewell to the stage of the master of Italian operatic tragedy.

At 68, he's past the usual retirement age, but Placido Domingo is still adding to a remarkable resume that includes tenor, conductor and opera administrator.

At a time when many arts and performance organizations are contracting, Rochester Aria Group is expanding as it prepares for an 11th season of presenting opera selections in Rochester.