The San Francisco Opera's third offering of the fall season, Donizetti's melodic bit of fluff Don Pasquale opened last week at the War Memorial in an amusing staging that also showed a rather cynical ...

The critics were downright disgusted when Gian Carlo Menotti’s new opera buffa was first performed in Paris last October. Le Dernier Sauvage had a libretto the French found far from funny, and its ...

Opera buffa is an ever-popular genre of the art, and more than two centuries after its composition, Rossini's Il barbière di Siviglia remains one this genre's most often staged operas. The music and ...