But what exactly is the “Liverpool Oratorio”? And what is it doing in the midst of a Cincinnati Opera season filled with much more traditional operatic fare – things like “Don Giovanni” and “La ...

In this sometimes plodding, sometimes energetic, but always fascinating history of opera, music historians Abbate and Parker conduct us on a captivating journey from the birth of opera in the 17th ...

Part of a series on the labor practices of the Des Moines Metro Opera. A world-renowned opera in a small town like Indianola is the kind of thing that starts with an idiosyncratic, indefatigable ...

Opera's first centennial -- Opera seria -- Discipline -- Opera buffa and Mozart's line of beauty -- Singing and speaking before 1800 -- The German problem -- Rossini and transition -- The tenor comes ...