Your humble correspondent requires a libretto at the opera house or he goes nuts trying to figure out what all that musical gesturing, garroting and genuflecting is telling the audience, which always ...

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 ...

Opera Philadelphia’s latest premiere is like an exquisite corpse, with a libretto by Michael R. Jackson and starring Justin Vivian Bond. By Elisabeth Vincentelli Reporting from Philadelphia As so ...

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 ...

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 ...