The San Francisco Opera's third offering of the fall season, Donizetti's melodic bit of fluff Don Pasquale opened last week at the War Memorial in an amusing staging that also showed a rather cynical ...

It may be that, at least for opera buffa, all you need to put on a great show is a first-rate lead, a good conductor and orchestra, and, above all, a terrific director. The Virginia Opera’s new ...

On the east face of Monte Colodri in Arco (Sarca Valley, Italy) Alessandro Beber and Matteo Pavana have established the multi-pitch rock climb Opera Buffa (270m, 7c+). Beber reports. The east face of ...

The great new Italian opera buffa, otherwise known as The Last Hours of the Costa Concordia, becomes more bizarre by the day. At first, the recitative showstopper seemed to be the recorded dialogue ...

A Saturday afternoon on the Asbury Park boardwalk offers such summer delights as beach volleyball under a kite-filled sky, miniature golf and skee-ball, lobster rolls and funnel cake. What a blessing ...

This excellent and very readable biography of Gioachino Rossini does not pretend to tell us anything new about his music. For that we can go elsewhere. But Gaia Servadio has written a lively, ...