How fortunate we are that the Mozart family spent so much time writing letters, and that, against all odds, many of the missives that passed among them were saved by their recipients and preserved for ...

For more than 200 years, Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” and Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” have been among the best-known operas in the world, with comical stories and lively music ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook As the orchestra dives into a bouncy, upbeat tune, the curtain rises on Edward Hanlon. He is ...

The recent production of Wolfgang Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” had many unusual aspects to it, but the strength of Pierre Beaumarchais’ original play, Lorenzo da Ponte’s skillful adaptation, as ...

It’s been a big, demanding month over at the San Francisco Opera, what with the huge production of Berlioz’s epic “The Trojans” followed by the world premiere of Marco Tutino’s “Two Women.” So maybe ...

The Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey opens its monthlong summer music festival Aug. 7 with a concert performance of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” in a shortened version, updated to the 1920s. The ...

Few people can easily define it but nearly everyone knows it when they hear it. Speak-singing, the murky marriage of spoken lyrics and sung melodies, can be heard in everything from 17th century opera ...

Not since Hollywood Lyricist Howard Dietz wrote a new English libretto for La Boheme six years ago (Love, rhymed Dietz, “is a feast for a Roman/ It’s warming my abdomen”) had a Metropolitan Opera ...