When things are looking as bleak as they are now – not to mention the midsummer weather – a noble function of art is to provide amusing distraction which takes one’s mind off the world’s troubles. By ...

Narrowsburg — Tusten Theatre was alive with the sounds of glorious operatic singing Saturday night as a large cast of enthusiastic Delaware Valley Opera singers and a polished pit orchestra under the ...

Let’s face it: opera isn’t something that comes up often in conversation. Which is why you might be surprised to learn that the University of South Carolina offers a truly comprehensive program for ...

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To close its season this week, New York City Opera is unleashing hurricane-force galesof laughter. The show is Offenbach’s “La Périchole,” and although the 1868 operetta’s not so top-drawer a work as ...

What a muddle Long Beach Opera has made of Offenbach’s comic “La Perichole,” unveiled Sunday at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach. The original story concerns two starving street ...

New York City Opera announced today that its annual Spring Gala will take place on Thursday, April 25, 2013. The evening will feature cocktails at 6:00pm and a spectacular performance of La Périchole ...

And that is the jolly jailor’s song. Laugh, at this silly stuff? We chortled, clapped and stomped – naturally, the copious quantities of alcohol consumed during the dinner interval had an influence, ...

Offenbach's great 1868 satire on Second Empire sexual hypocrisy is rarely seen in the UK, so Garsington Opera should be commended for tackling it – possibly as the first instalment of a re-examination ...