You don’t have to be an expert in the zeitgeist to know that Korean pop culture has had the world in a K-prefixed grip of late. From K-beauty and K-pop (side bar: I recently had an amusing ...

The Lyric Opera of Chicago is bringing Mozart’s comedic masterpiece “Cos? Fan tutte” to the stage. Catherine O'Hara's cause of death revealed Trump administration's changes to the CFPB cost Americans ...

Having manipulator Don Alfonso (Andrew Foster-Williams, spruce and smug as he should be) summon them from a trunk during Mozart's vivacious Overture put us in a good mood - the sort of funny business ...

Some operatic updates don’t work because they come off clumsy and narratively contradictory — often the result of stage directors trying too hard to be relevant or putting their sociopolitical stamp ...

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Lyric Opera is advertising its current production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Così fan tutte as a great big delicious Valentine treat. Also, as a sunny antidote to our long, bitter, deep-freeze of a ...

Conventional wisdom has it that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” has been a bankable opera house favorite for more than 200 years due to the whimsical cleverness of romantic plot and score ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2025/26 season continues with Mozart’s sparkling romantic comedy Così fan tutte, on stage February 1 – 15, 2026. Mozart’s most psychologically complex comedy comes to Lyric in ...

Dating nightmares make for cynical comedy in Minnesota Opera’s production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Così fan tutte.” Under Doug Scholz-Carlson’s direction, the ending is put in the hands of the ...

My grandfather was a die-hard Vanderbilt football fan which, in the 1970s and ’80s, meant he was also something of an optimist, philosopher and part-time delusionist. Every August, without fail, he’d ...