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The plot is wacky and not at all politically correct, but Rossini's cross-cultural opera shattered another stereotype: that of the damsel in distress.

It's not just "Hi-ho, Silver!" — there are four whole acts, not to mention that apple and bow.

Placido Domingo takes on his 126th role: as Bajazet in Handel's taut drama Tamerlano..

Is Don Giovanni the greatest opera of them all, as some have suggested? That's hard to say, but Mozart's brilliant combination of stark human tragedy and realistic comedy features music of limitless genius, and a drama that lives up to the score.

An opera with a most unusual — and very disturbing — 'bad guy': a little old lady who believes that anyone who doesn't agree with her moral code must pay a terrible price.

Brooklyn verismo, courtesy of American composer William Bolcom: the trials of Italian immigrants — some of them illegal — in 1950s Red Hook.

There are many failed operas based on Romeo and Juliet — Bellini created one of the rare successes.

Lully shows us what happens when mere mortals get involved with the gods.

The story of a man so in love that he's willing to burn down Rome — and the emperor who is able to forgive him.

The members of the band Lake Street Dive have been making music together for nearly 10 years — but only recently have experienced commercial success.