Great is Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera. But much of its scenery is hideous, most of its stagecraft pompous, hidebound, stodgy. In Europe, opera is everywhere sung in the language of the land, whereas ...

In continental Europe opera is usually sung in the language of the country where it is produced. Thus in Germany Pagliacci becomes Bajazzo, in Italy Tristan nnd Isolde becomes Tristano e Isotta, in ...

Joan of Arc occupies a special place in the hearts of New Orleanians. As one of the patron saints of France, the former mother country of Louisiana, her heroism in battle and the morale she inspired ...

AFTER a silence of about five years, Massenet’s “Manon” has been revived at the Metropolitan, and the worst has happened. We hear from “Manon” fanciers that full justice was not done to Massenet’s ...