The San Francisco Opera's third offering of the fall season, Donizetti's melodic bit of fluff Don Pasquale opened last week at the War Memorial in an amusing staging that also showed a rather cynical ...

On the east face of Monte Colodri in Arco (Sarca Valley, Italy) Alessandro Beber and Matteo Pavana have established the multi-pitch rock climb Opera Buffa (270m, 7c+). Beber reports. The east face of ...

It may be that, at least for opera buffa, all you need to put on a great show is a first-rate lead, a good conductor and orchestra, and, above all, a terrific director. The Virginia Opera’s new ...

Next Friday and Saturday a group of artists working with Coriolis Dance will transform the Northwest Film Forum into a “living museum” called What Is Home An Obscure Kingdom an Opera Buffa It’s Always ...

WHEN the Teatro Colón, Latin America's most famous opera house, closed for refurbishment in November 2006, Buenos Aires city officials vowed that it would reopen in time for its centenary on May 25th ...

Some of the greatest operas are also the most difficult to shove into a narrow category. Others have layer upon layer, which makes them endlessly fascinating. “The Ghosts of Versailles” — the “grand ...

The report by Italian mountaineer Leo Gheza who on 29 April, after having cycled 150km, climbed "Opera Buffa" rope solo on Mount Colodri at Arco. Almost 300m high and with difficulties up to 7c+, ...

This excellent and very readable biography of Gioachino Rossini does not pretend to tell us anything new about his music. For that we can go elsewhere. But Gaia Servadio has written a lively, ...