When you think of opera, you probably think lavish productions, performed in major metropolitan areas. But in the city of Visalia, in rural Tulare County, a small opera company is taking on a big task ...
Political satire thrived amid the richly sophisticated cultural life of Berlin in the 1920s but it didn’t really go away anywhere in Germany once Adolf Hitler came to power. It simply went underground ...
The Beggar's Opera West End in 1940 - The Beggar's Opera At its London premiere in 1728, John Gay's rollicking Beggar's Opera caused a sensation. Lampooning… ...
The first few chords of Sergei Prokofiev’s 1940 opera “Semyon Kotko” have a lush, almost Hollywood quality that makes you think this exercise in socialist realism might be fun. As the Kirov Opera’s ...
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Tap your toes to the swinging big band jazz sounds of the 1940's, including "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" and "Strike Up The Band" as The 1940's Radio Hour opens this weekend at the Old Opera House.
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