This is a festive opinion cartoon. There is nothing more Super Sunday in Mobile than Mardi Gras Joe Cain Day and the Merry Widows. This year is even more super, as the Widows will be celebrating their ...

Several people noted that Sydney is one of the few places in the world able to have an opera season at all. A quick survey of the major houses in the Northern Hemisphere — the Royal Opera in London, ...

Shifting the setting forward to the interwar period, director Graeme Murphy reframes the action in a period of radical cultural expression, progressive social and political agendas, and extreme ...

In recent years Britain's leading opera companies have sought to "broaden their audiences and expand their repertory", said Nicholas Kenyon in The Daily Telegraph. We've had "Sweeney Todd" at the ...

If you’re still trying to shake pandemic doldrums, nothing fuels a can-do spirit quite like a can-can. When Charlottesville Opera opens its second production of the season, Franz Lehar’s “The Merry ...

Ronald Hynd’s “The Merry Widow” has amazing legs for a story ballet created in 1975. Countless three-act productions from the 20th-century have not endured, but “The Merry Widow,” based on Franz Lehár ...