Director Harry Fehr on the decision to update Handel’s opera, and why Baroque pieces don’t get performed as often as they should.
The San Francisco Opera stages Frank Capra’s holiday classic, It’s a Wonderful Life, all without re-creating Bedford Falls, N.Y.
Critics tend to get a little breathless when conveying the power of Richard Strauss’ 1909 opera, Elektra.
When Verdi's Rigoletto debuted in 1851, censors demanded changes. The libretto, based on Victor Hugo's long-banned play The King Amuses Himself, now begins with…
When you want to hear classic opera played on vinyl from an old-school jukebox, while drinking old-school cocktails, there's only once place to go…
By picking Carlisle Floyd's Susannah for its eighth production, San Francisco Parlor Opera has cunningly rendered moot your last excuse for not checking out…
George Carlin famously noted that the differences between football and baseball offer telling insights about culture and character. “Football is played in any kind…
