DRESS REHERSAL: For Maison Lesage artistic director Hubert Barrère, the June 21 premiere of “Zémire et Azor,” the opéra-comique — a genre of French opera with dialogue as well as sung segments — will ...

It was momentous news. But it wasn’t really a surprise. Last week, Louis Langrée, music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, announced that French President Emmanuel Macron had appointed him ...

One thing I firmly believe about my job is simply this: if you're going to dish it out, as I occasionally do, you have to be able to take it. In putting together my column for this past Sunday I ...

La fille du régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) is an opéra comique in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, set to a French libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard. It ...

Join the Sinfonietta Bel Canto in its celebration of the elegant 19th-century French music, presenting Daniel François Auber’s “Le Concert à la cour ou La Débutante,” an opéra-comique in one act, and ...

Last week, in Manhattan, the Little Opera of America, Inc., presented an Opera Comique, Mandragola. Those who attended were familiar with the Little Opera’s contention that the U. S. public will pay ...

Marc Mauillon (remarkably, his first musical) makes for a slightly older, but nonetheless believable, Seymour, and Judith Fa is vocally impressive as Audrey, especially in "Somewhere That's Green" ...

MANY bows have passed over the bridges in our concert halls in the past few weeks, but all of this fiddling has failed to violinist who can be reveal any new considered a menace to the Messrs. Elman, ...

Louis Langrée is gushing with enthusiasm as he talks about this weekend’s Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra presentation of Ambroise Thomas’ “Hamlet.” That’s hardly a surprise. Langrée, the CSO’s music ...