RUNTIME: About two hours, including one intermission and on-stage extra performances (see below). THUMBNAIL SKETCH: In the long history of the performing arts, traveling troupes would go from town to ...

Nineteenth-century verismo becomes 21st-century psychodrama, as English Touring Opera dramatise this tawdry tale of jealousy and violence with a keen eye for the dramatic image ...

Lyric Opera of Kansas City General Director and CEO Deborah Sandler Kemper today announced the 2023-2024 season-opening production, a double bill of ALL NEW productions of Cavalleria rusticana and ...

Spokane Opera celebrated its silver anniversary with a vibrant, steamy production of Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci” Friday at The Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox. There were those in Friday’s audience, ...

Opera is dramatic. Opera is tragic and funny, full of betrayal and steamy passion. Opera is big and bold, dripping with emotions sung to the last row. • But is opera outdated? Is opera difficult to ...

Roberto Alagna takes on the leading tenor roles in both parts of opera’s most popular double bill. Two tales of passion, jealousy, and death set in southern Italy, Cav/Pag have been all but ...

Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" is as easy to dismiss as it is to praise. Certainly, it is not a subtle piece of theater and just as certainly it possesses more telling music than much longer operas. After ...

The late ’60s Kellogg's cereal ad above, with the lyrics “No more Rice Krispies! We are out of Rice Krispies!” was named one of the top 10 commercials of all time by Entertainment Weekly. [Opera ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- Tenor John Horton Murray will be on stage this weekend, as the unhappy clown singing the aria "Vesti la giubba" in If you've seen a lot of movies or watch a lot of TV, you've probably ...

ANCHOR INTRO: San Diego Opera kicks off its 2014 season with “Pagliacci.” KPBS arts reporter Beth Accomando says the story plays out like a classic horror film. TAG: San Diego Opera’s production of ...