From plays to musicals, operas to operettas, and everything in between, the genres of theater can get confusing, and the criteria of what makes each different can be unclear. Shakespeare famously ...

Catalan theater collective La Fura dels Baus stages an oddly gloomy version of Haydn’s oratorio at the Mostly Mozart Festival. Opera Saratoga’s summer festival offers a new chamber version of a work ...

THE form of drama with music which we loosely call ‘opera’ is such a curious mixture of many elements — some of them closely related, others nearly irreconcilable — that it is almost impossible to ...