The curtain rises to reveal a skeleton of a 1960s style house - there are doors, but no walls, revealing a gleaming white vintage car parked outside. The roof and chimney are formed of strip lights ...

Scott Schoonover and his Union Avenue Opera have a long history (now twenty-nine years) of gathering remarkable operatic voices. Their current production of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale has voices that ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — We’ve all met a Don Pasquale: at best bumblingly ineffectual, at worst leeringly prurient. We’ve all had a Dr. Malatesta dupe us, or try to. We may have been one, or both. We ...

Have you ever been to an opera and walked out humming the concept? Theoretically, it shouldn’t happen, for the main reason companies keep staging these old works is to keep their magnificent music in ...

Opera Saratoga's production of "Don Pasquale." SARATOGA SPRINGS — Although there are only four characters in “Don Pasquale,” they easily get themselves worked up and tangled up in high pitched drama.

We still may be months away from a packed house in an indoor theater, but the arts have found ways to thrive despite current pandemic-based limitations. Opera Santa Barbara, for instance, has moved ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — It's an opera plot as old as the geezer it mocks: The old boy wants to marry a sweet young thing and winds up making a fool of himself. All in good fun, of course. Donizetti seized ...

Wrapping up its fourth season, Berkshire Opera Festival has two performances of Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale” this week. Donizetti's "Don Pasquale," which premiered in 1843, is a comic opera that is ...

Rock chanteuse Tina Turner asked the right question for a story plot: What's love got to do with it? Gaetano Donizetti and Gulfshore Opera have the answer. The company is producing Donizetti's ...

Opera lovers may not expect to see classically-trained singers wearing Phillies caps on stage, but a Philadelphia vocal school is subverting those expectations with their reimagined production of a ...