Signals for Curtains Up! sounded last week almost simultaneously in San Francisco and Chicago for another opera season. San Francisco’s curtain-raiser was a smoothly-run performance of Halevy’s La ...

AFTER several months which were strikingly devoid of anything resembling a notable song recital, there was a sudden renaissance within a week. The renaissance was effected by three vocalists of German ...

Last month, with the help of Horace Johnson, head of Manhattan’s Federal Music Project, New York City’s musical Mayor LaGuardia decided to bring Wagner to the man-of-the-street. Engaging such ...

Elisabeth Rethberg returned to the Metropolitan Opera Monday evening and succeeded-believe it or not!-in transtorming teh inanity of Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly”into something dramatic adn even at ...