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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...