There is no house in the United States dedicated to presenting works from a prominent corner of homegrown music theater repertory. By Seth Colter Walls Whenever I’m trying to sell a friend on a night ...

To stage left, a contemporary comedy-drama written; stage right, one of the most famed comic operas by a beloved 19th century duo. There's not much in common between Theatre Tuscaloosa's production of ...

MasterVoices sheds the typical grand-opera treatment of Bizet’s classic to reveal a sleeker, funnier show. By Seth Colter Walls Do we truly know Bizet’s “Carmen”? To be fair, the opera could ...

Did you ever wish someone would stop talking —- endlessly? Opera composer Jacques Offenbach wrote a comic opera about annoying chatterboxes, titled “Les Bavards” based on a story by Cervantes. Set in ...

An elderly woman's attempt to restore a long-forgotten fresco of Jesus backfires, instead going viral on social media. She faces online shame and community rejection, but finds redemption when curious ...

Sometime around his fourth “The Barber of Seville,” Chicago-based operatic baritone Will Liverman realized he’d been hounded by the same “nugget of an idea” for years. That idea was inspired by the ...

The University of Houston’s Moores Opera Center has announced its winter comic opera festival taking place at the end of January, which will feature John Musto’s “The Inspector” and Domenico ...

Natalya Pavlova is a beautiful young woman who sings with intelligence, a fine legato and some excellent phrasing. Her voice lacks both an Italianate sound and bloom in its upper register, but still, ...

Hear the word “Belgian” and where does your mind go to? Belgian ale? Hercule Poirot? Belgian horses? Belgian chocolate? How about the Belgian sport of professional finch calling? No really, there is ...