Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s music is, by operatic programming standards, the law. It pleases the people, because the people have come to know it: “The Marriage of Figaro,” “Don Giovanni” and “The Magic ...

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 ...

Figaro' has the best music Mozart ever wrote for drama and the best story ever put into an opera,” Stokes said. “It’s full of twists, surprises and incredible reveals, all within one day. You get ...

Director Melanie Helton’s key to MSU Opera Theatre's production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” is bold color. As she has studied the opera, Helton said she feels the opera’s themes of good and evil, ...

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), ...

Pianist Paul Orgel has performed and recorded music of many composers but, for him, it always comes back to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91). “I loved his music at a very early age, and ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Mozart's Idomeneo takes place in the aftermath of the Trojan War when a fateful ...

Audiences at the Detroit Opera House expecting their performance of "Cosi fan tutte" to begin with the overture may be surprised to hear instead a product launch from a tech company CEO. It's Mozart ...

"Don Giovanni is a very popular opera that is considered a staple in many opera practitioners’ repertoire. By transplanting ...

Editor's note: This article originally posted on the San Francisco Examiner. Click here for more culture reporting at sfexaminer.com Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 1781 masterpiece “Idomeneo,” his early ...