In “Great Scott,” the opera that made its West Coast premiere Saturday at the San Diego Civic Theatre, a young stage manager tells an older classics-loving conductor that opera is dead. Whether the ...

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM is a classic farce with all the expected tropes - fast-paced, punny dialogue, mistaken identities with ridiculous costumes, all presented with more than ...

This bittersweet comedy is the story of the indomitable Fanny Brice, a girl from the Lower East Side who dreamed of a life on the stage. Everyone told her she'd never be a star, but then something ...

The fires of love among Manuela, Jose Maria and Rosario were first ignited on the streets of Madrid during the golden era of zarzuela, Spanish lyric comedy operetta of the 1890s. The romantic and ...

A funny opera needs a funny composer. Fortunately, that's what Colder By the Lake got when it commissioned Tyler Kaiser to write the score for its "Les Uncomfortables." "Les Unc," as it's ...

A costume sketch for the character Moore from “The Dragon of Wantley” by Seth Bodie, costume designer. Poking fun at the lofty conventions of opera is a practice that’s almost as old as opera itself.

I was sitting at the opera last night, laughing out loud (repeatedly) at the world premiere of John Musto's comedy The Inspector, when a question came to mind: What happened to all the funny operas?

LEBANON, N.H. Verdi's opera "Falstaff" combines Shakespeare's character of "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and "King Henry IV" to create one of the very few comedies in the golden age of Romantic opera.

MICHAEL Haneke, the acclaimed Austrian filmmaker whose “Funny Games” opens today, will be directing an opera by another native of his homeland, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Haneke’s version of “Cosi von ...