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Playwright Heather Raffo leads a free reading of a libretto-in-progress at Georgetown University August 29. Photograph courtesy of Georgetown University Department of Performing Arts Nine Parts of ...
In a letter to his mother from May 1817 sent from Naples, Gioachino Rossini asked her to send the poet Gaetano Rossi a libretto she would find in a trunk. It was the libretto of 'Laurina ...
In Gioachino Rossini's "Otello," it's not jealousy that proves the downfall of the title character. It's Francesco Berio di Salsa's libretto. In fairness, that's an oversimplification of complicated ...
Arthur Woodley as Emile Griffith, foreground, and Brian Arreola as Luis Rodrigo Griffith in Opera Theatre of Saint Louis' 2013 world premiere production of "Champion," by Jazz composer Terence ...
NEW YORK – Charles Blow recalls being in the audience at the premiere of the opera based on his memoir, “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” and watching the scene that depicts his sexual abuse as a child by ...
We’re at a pizza parlor, listening to “The Perversity of Captain Morgan.” This opera has everything: drunk pirates, “horny fish,” a preteen stowaway from Colorado, and a character referred to only as ...