From plays to musicals, operas to operettas, and everything in between, the genres of theater can get confusing, and the criteria of what makes each different can be unclear. Shakespeare famously ...
There were New Year’s Eve fireworks of a different kind in this production of Charles Gounod’s opera at the Met. Performances at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the Met Fifth Avenue continue to explore the ...
THE form of drama with music which we loosely call ‘opera’ is such a curious mixture of many elements — some of them closely related, others nearly irreconcilable — that it is almost impossible to ...