The premiere of Meyerbeer's opera Robert le Diable was one of the most significant musical events of the 1830s. Ever since its appearance, it has been known that the work was based on an opéra comique ...

The Opéra-Comique in Paris is a bit like home to William Christie. The American conductor has directed 13 productions there since the historic 1987 exhumation of Jean-Baptiste Lully's lyrical tragedy ...

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" ...

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 ...

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 ...

BEIJING, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- The Beijing Music Festival will initiate a three-year opera co-production program with the prestigious French dramatic and musical institution Opera Comique, according to ...