A Singspiele is an opera that combines the best of the 18th Century operatic vocal mastery with a hint of amusing dialogue ...

Terrance McKnight: This is Every Voice with Terrance McKnight. It’s a new podcast from WQXR that interrogates the culture of our classical music scene and we look at ways to make it beautiful for all ...

Terrance McKnight: This is Every Voice with Terrance McKnight. It’s a new podcast from WQXR that interrogates the culture of our classical music scene and we look at ways to make it beautiful for all ...

A touch of adventure, a hint of cruelty, a pinch of humour and much of poetry make up this story with the public will be actor full. Betrothed to Belmonte, the Constance belle is kidnapped by pirates ...

DETROIT – Michigan Opera Theatre continues its 2007 Spring Opera Season with the highly-anticipated company premiere of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The Abduction from the Seraglio," May 12-19. The ...

Director Michael Scarola wanted to make it perfectly clear: No, he was not requiring Andrew Funk to shave his head. He could just as easily don a bald cap for his role as Osmin in Arizona Opera's ...

The set is a single rotating unit, on one side Osmin’s gatehouse, a Hans Sachs-style workshop, and on the other a harem, a complex of large gilded cages. And that’s plenty for telling this story.

Mozart ushered in a new era in music history with this first of his operatic masterpieces. It tells of the rescue of the young Spaniard Konstanze and her friends by her fiance Belmonte from the ...

SAN ANTONIO - When it comes to opera adaptations to different settings, the chamber opera staged Saturday night by Opera Piccola may be the final frontier. The leap from Mozart's "Abduction from the ...

The title of Mozart’s 1782 opera is, of course, something of a misnomer. No-one is to be stolen away from a harem – more accurately the plot revolves around the planned rescue of Constanze from a ...