Back to school Back to school

Time to Act at Pittsburgh Opera effectively employs Greek tragedy to explore the all-too-common tragedies haunting schools across the United States.

A shtetl aesthetic A shtetl aesthetic

Austin Opera’s moving production of Fiddler on the Roof grounds itself in lived tradition, to great effect.

Ulysses in Midtown Ulysses in Midtown

In the program for Opera Omnia’s production of Monteverdi’s Il ritorno di Ulisse, Crystal Manich, the company’s stage director, speaks of producing “baroque works in non-traditional ways.”

Witch of the season

Noticing how often she turns up lately, one might guess that the operatic “heroine” for the global economic crunch is Medea, the mythological Greek sorceress and filicide.