Twice a year the Michigan State University College of Music hosts an opera at Fairchild Theatre. The spring semester show was performed March 26-30. Directed by MSU professor of voice Melanie Helton, ...

Hundreds of local children saw grand opera for the first time as Opera NOVA tried to show that this art form isn’t just for rich old people. Its production of Rossini’s “La Cenerentola,” or ...

“La Cenerentola” is not a Cinderella story one would expect when walking into the Emerson Majestic Theatre, with its antique balcony boxes and domed ceiling. After a splendid overture conducted by ...

Librettist Ferretti removed the magical elements from the tale of Cinderella, La Cenerentola, to allow opera composer Gioachino Rossini to soften his opera buffa, but there’s more than enough fairy ...

Most of us know the Cinderella story from fairy-tale books and Disney's animated 1950 classic, but the beloved scullery maid-turned-princess is also the heroine of one of Gioachino Rossini's most ...