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 ...

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 ...

Fifty-one Southeast Missouri State University student actors and musicians — under the guidance of six faculty members — are presenting a revised interpretation of 200-year-old French operetta “La ...

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 ...

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 ...

Singers Melissa Serluco, mezzo-soprano (Périchole), Nathan Letourneau, tenor (Piquillo); Patrick Taylor Russell, baritone (Don Andres de Ribeira, Viceroy of Peru), DeMar Neal IV, baritone (Don Miguel ...

"Monsieur Offenbach regularly composes three waltzes before lunch, a mazurka after dinner, and four galops[sic] between the two meals" - so wrote France’s waltz-king pseudonymously about himself. Full ...

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 ...

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