Fifty-one Southeast Missouri State University student actors and musicians — under the guidance of six faculty members — are presenting a revised interpretation of 200-year-old French operetta “La ...

Of his own operas and operettas, Fortunio seems to have been the most successful in its day (1907); but I confess I’d heard never a note of it until this new production at Grange Park by Daniel Slater ...

Alain Resnais’ latest feature, Not on the Lips (2003), apparently won’t be shown in commercial theaters in this country. I can’t think of another French movie that’s given me as much pleasure in years ...

On any night of the week, theatre-goers in Paris can choose between dozens of productions of the French classics, French farce or French operetta. What they rarely see are musicals from America or ...

Dying heroines. Duplicitous villains. Egocentric Casanovas. Overprotective fathers. Scorned lovers. Ostracized villagers. The opera world often takes itself very seriously, and, let’s face it, all ...

The set-up: If Houston Grand Opera’s sparkling production of Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus (“The Bat”) isn’t the finest vintage grand cru champagne, it is nonetheless from a very good year. It ...

Cuban music is coming to New York – by way of Paris. The New York Festival of Song’s 2013-14 Mainstage series resumes Dec. 5 with “Cubans in Paris, Cubans at Home,” a five-section, 90-minute concert ...

If it was performed after that date, it has since fallen into the dusty corners of forgotten repertoire, along with the neglected genre of light opera. Girofle-Girofla is about to be revived, in a ...

It’s a work which reminds us that French operetta and opéra comique often cross the boundaries supposedly defined by those titles. It starts off apparently as an operetta. A lawyer’s clerk, Landry ...