Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Reconstructions of 19th-century ballets often involve a dose of artistic pastiche, but few stagings have taken the ...

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 ...

Appointed general director of the Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique in October 2021 by French President Emmanuel Macron, Louis Langrée, 62, launched his first season on Thursday, March 30. The ...

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 ...