L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love) is one of the most popular Donizetti operas and comic operas there is. The librettist ...

A new issue Green Lantern Corps #10 (written by Morgan Hampton, drawn by Fernando Pasarin) leans on the greatest space ...

Men, the Avengers, or Spider-Man himself, but regardless of who is starring in the movie, 10/10 superhero movies all have a ...

The great books of the past, which have been in danger of falling by the wayside as people read less and less, are reentering the zeitgeist.

The Metropolitan Opera has invited 70 influencers to help convince a younger, online audience that opera isn’t scary or even ...

Five decades in, Andrew Lloyd Webber's mega-musical has an infuriating storyline and an impressive everything else. Cue the chandelier.

Two comic operas presented by the UAF Music Department on Sunday, Nov. 16 at Davis Concert Hall, were a fun introduction to an art form that is usually dramatic and intense. These operas were short, ...

Just forget the glass slippers (they must have been excruciating to wear), and for goodness’ sake throw out that moldy pumpkin coach. Gioachino Rossini’s (1792-1868) “La Cenerentola,” though funny (it ...

On Cendrillon, at the Opéra Royal de Versailles. But Cendrillon is not a children’s opera. Musically and structurally it behaves like other topflight Rossini comic operas, with scintillating ensembles ...

If you have to meet pirates some day, hope they’re as terrible at pirating as the titular swashbucklers in “The Pirates of Penzance,” the 1879 comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan on stage at Seattle ...

Giacomo Puccini’s beloved one-act comic opera “Gianni Schicci” is coming to the Bornemann Theatre in San Marcos for three enchanting performances Sept. 5-7. In this production, Genesis Opera Theatre’s ...

Tyrese Byrd as Ubaldo, Botond Pál as Rinaldo, and Emily Helenbrook as the title character in Opera Neo’s “Armida.” (Photo courtesy Gary Payne Photography) What was it about the story of Armida and ...