NEW YORK — I envy my New York Times colleague Michael Cooper, who recently got to see the Metropolitan Opera stars Susan Graham and Paul Groves off duty, belting Queen and Journey at a karaoke bar on ...

"The Merry Widow" represents a transitional moment in opera. The operetta (a lighter, shorter opera) was a huge success when it debuted in Vienna in 1905, and it built onto that success through an ...

She's appeared on grand opera stages (New York's Metropolitan Opera recently staged a version starring Frederica von Stade and Placido Domingo) and in high school auditoriums, in films both silent (an ...

But The Merry Widow in the rarified aura of Glyndebourne? The company did tackle this famous 1905 operetta for a few concert performances when their theatre was shut (narrated by Dirk Bogarde, no less ...

Susan Graham sings the title role of the fabulous woman of the world who sets out to conquer glamorous old Paris and get the one thing that has eluded her—a commitment from her playboy first love.

Several people noted that Sydney is one of the few places in the world able to have an opera season at all. A quick survey of the major houses in the Northern Hemisphere — the Royal Opera in London, ...