UA Opera Theater opens its 2022-23 season this weekend with a production Director Cynthia Stokes says is the most perfect opera ever written. Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro” (The Marriage of Figaro) is ...

Mozart was improbably transported to the Roaring ’20s in Virginia Opera’s “Così fan tutte” this past weekend at Norfolk’s Harrison Opera House. While shifted in time, good Mozart (and this is good), ...

On Saturday, June 8, The Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra exploded into the Balboa Theatre with a performance of Handel’s Royal Fireworks Music, thereby opening their five-concert series with music ...

Mozart described his masterpiece "Don Giovanni" as an opera buffa: a comedy. Yet the work bristles with the political issues of the day, see-sawing between farce and deep seriousness. The Don Juan ...

With a new opera season starting, at least via streaming or tourism, it might be a good time to ask what opera is. Opera is like the movies. There’s the broad term of movies but within that are dozens ...