Central City Opera has announced the cast and artistic team for its upcoming production of Rossini's beloved comedy, The ...

George Szirtes remembers Martin Bell, whom he met as a student, and his ‘Collected Poems’ that glitter with laughter and ...

It makes humans human. After we’ve dug ourselves out of this obscene opera buffa or grotesque clown ballet (take your pick), there will be more art to make and see. So, to paraphrase the British ...

A new concert series is about to be presented as part of the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra’s spring agenda. Premiere 4 will tour ...

and arguably the greatest masterwork of the Italian opera buffa (comic opera) genre, Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville.) The First Cello Concerto of Camille Saint-Saens, featuring ...

Mozart and Da Ponte travel well and can take it. And as for the whole idea of a philosophical opera buffa about matched, mismatched and rematched lovers? “All’s Well That Ends Well.” (That’s a ...

“The Human Voice” is a monodrama first staged at the Comédie-Française in 1930, written two years earlier. It is set in Paris ...

Mozart and Da Ponte travel well and can take it. And as for the whole idea of a philosophical opera buffa about matched, mismatched and rematched lovers? “All’s Well That Ends Well.” ...

As with many an opera buffa premise, the rightfully and immortally classic Figaro is a tangled spaghetti of plot and identity twists, outlandish scheming, and a labyrinthine trajectory towards an ...

The travellers in this collection of essays are mostly British (Polish count Michał Jan Borch is the one exception) and their travels confined to Europe, apart from those of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, ...