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 ...
What: Offenbach's "Orpheus in the Underworld." Where: Alice Busch Opera Theater, Otsego Lake, Cooperstown, New York. When: July 7th, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. (Performances continue in repertory through ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 newest creation of the brilliant minds behind Elizabeth and Mozart! is an exceptional musical about intrigue, revolution and love. The infamous necklace scandal, which is often seen as one of the ...
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 ...
Dame Felicity Lott didn't just change her outfit during the intermission of her solo recital in Herbst Theatre on Thursday night. She changed her repertoire, her voice, her demeanor and her approach - ...