Opera

Let's Play Two: A single weekend sees two Opera Theatre openings — and so do we

Doubleheader Sweep: With Il tabarro and Pagliacci, Opera Theatre registers a rout

Party People

Don't Come Around Here No More: With Alice in Wonderland, Opera Theatre goes out on a limb and falls off

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown, Paul Friswold and Lew Prince suss out the local theater scene

The Italian Battalion: Opera Theatre attacks Donizetti's Daughter of the Regiment with all due delight

Turn of the Screwer: Opera Theatre whips out Don Giovanni

A Few Bars For Lunch

Opera Theatre's Marriage of Figaro isn't quite ready for prime time

Sad and Wonderful Love

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown, Lew Prince and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown, Paul Friswold and Lew Prince suss out the local theater scene

Got Fetish? With Salome, Opera Theatre has something for everyone but the squeamish.

Bohèmian Rhapsody: Opera Theatre rings in 2009 with a spirited La Bohème

Young Hearts, Be Free Tonight

That's Entertainment

War Is Still Hell: Opera Theatre's season-closing Troilus and Cressida is not to be missed

Miss Thing: Opera Theatre's new take on Una Cosa Rara features sweet singing — but not much else

The Soprano: Diva Kelly Kaduce hits the high notes in Opera Theatre's Madame Butterfly

Wicked Good: Opera Theatre pulls out all the bizarre stops in mounting The Tales of Hoffmann

Turkish Delight

Two Nights at the Opera

Aria Ready?

Opera Theatre concludes its season with a bel canto bang.

From Russia, with Deepest Sympathy

Grand finale: He didn't live to see the world premiere, but Colin Graham's Anna Karenina is a fitting culmination to a stellar opera career.

Love in the Time of Tuberculosis

Conspicuous consumption: Opera Theatre of Saint Louis spins a smooth La traviata.

Discovering Japan

Opera Theatre opens 2007 with an outrageous updating of a Gilbert & Sullivan classic.

O Soul Mio

Jermaine Smith once laughed at the notion of a black opera singer. Now the UMSL grad’s at the top of the profession.

Festive Firearms

Rockets' red glare and a concert

Kicking Disney's Ass

Opera Theatre's Beauty and the Beast is built to thrill

Cry, Cry Again

A devastatingly moving Opera Theatre double bill

Might Makes Flight

Opera Theatre of St. Louis sends an opera on its maiden voyage

Swept Away

The Opera Theatre mounts a captivating Abduction

Bard Bellowing

Opera Theatre of St. Louis tackles a tough adaptation of Hamlet and nails it

Lucia in the Sky

In Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti scores a trifecta: murder, madness and suicide

Carmen's Electric

Taking on the classic Georges Bizet tragedy is another step in Union Avenue Opera Theatre's ongoing success story

Flight Path

Opera Theatre of St. Louis charts the course for the world premiere of a Lindbergh opera

God Complex

With its fireworks and fanfare, Opera Theatre's Hippolytus and Aricia is a worthy and wonderful season finale

Farce Field

Opera Theatre's take on Offenbach's light comedy The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein is joyful and sure-handed

A Little Night Music

Opera Theatre opens its season with La Bohème and enchants an evening.

Best Musical Theater Production

Radamisto, Opera Theatre of St. Louis

Best Theater Group

Opera Theatre of St. Louis

La Bohème

Music by Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa (Union Avenue Opera Theatre)

Così fan tutte

By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte (Union Avenue Opera Theatre)

The Tale of Genji

By Minoru Miki; libretto by Colin Graham, adapted from the novel by Lady Murasaki Shikibu (Opera Theatre of St. Louis)

La Traviata

By Giuseppe Verdi (Opera Theatre of St. Louis)

A Guest of Honor

Scott Joplin receives a celebratory homecoming with Opera Theatre of St. Louis' revival of Treemonisha

Albert Herring

Music by Benjamin Britten, libretto by Eric Crozier (Washington University Opera)

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