James Inverne on why he was drawn to write a play about a scandal around the writing of two rival La bohèmes Creativity, and creative people, and their creative works, often make me emotional. I don’t ...
Three house debuts, the return of a director-conductor dream team, and a harkening back to the very first production of Florida Grand Opera's historic 82 seasons mark Ruggiero Leoncavallo's I ...
For the first time in its history, the Millennium Event Center opens its doors to an opera that takes over the entire space. Gone is the traditional divide between stage and seat. Instead, you step ...
The clown in striped pants, white smock and painted face is one of the most recognizable figures in opera. "I Pagliacci" ("The Clowns"), from which the character is taken, is equally famous. Of the ...
West Edge Opera continued its Doppelgänger season by presenting the ’other’ La Bohème, not Puccini’s but rather Ruggero Leoncavallo’s opera of the same title. Based on the same play, Scenes de la vie ...
Opera Las Vegas will close its 2025-26 season with a new production of Ruggero Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci” next month.
Opera in the Heights (OH) celebrates its 20th year with a season that includes The Medium and The Telephone, two short operas by Gian Carlo Menotti, Rossini's beloved La Cenerentola, the story of ...
11:25, Sun, Jul 23, 2017 Updated: 11:31, Sun, Jul 23, 2017 The latest gem is Zazà by Ruggero Leoncavallo, composer of Pagliacci. Why the opera has been so rarely performed is a mystery. True, there is ...
Tragedy in opera can deliver an emotional sucker punch like no other medium. Usually, the music is to blame. But when the main characters also work in a clown troupe and must continue to entertain ...
Anne Sophie Duprels gives a central performance of astonishing rawness in Marie Lambert’s smartly stripped-back staging of a bittersweet love story The final offering in Opera Holland Park’s current ...