We trace the origins of Opera from the Camerata in Italy in the late 1500’s through the early efforts of Peri and Caccini, through to Monteverdi and onwards to Caccini, to Lully in France, to Handel in England, and back to Pergolesi in...

Arthur Sullivan was one of those kids that made everyone hate themselves because while his friends were learning how to carry the one, he composed an anthem about weeping for Jerusalem on the shores of Babylon and he could play all of...

Shakespeare invented him, Verdi made him immortal: "Falstaff" is a comic opera about a bon vivant which is back on the stage of the Royal Opera House in London in a production by the Canadian Robert Carsen. (it...