Behind the patched and faded fed velvet curtain of Philadelphia’s elegant Academy of Music (built in 1857 and famed for its acoustics) lives a small brown bat. During Metropolitan Opera visits to the ...

“Opera seems very conservative and traditional, but it’s not,” says Opera on Tap’s Eve Orenstein. “Opera’s not stuffy at all. It’s kind of fun and naughty.” The monthly series, which just moved from ...

Even those of us who love opera have to admit that a lot of it is ridiculous. “There’s a scene in (Verdi’s) ‘Don Carlo’ where the baritone gets stabbed,” said director Samuel Mungo. “He sings an ...

Some of the most hilarious moments in our lives come to us not from stand-up comedians or corny puns, but from the unexpected: a toddler delivering a perfectly timed deadpan joke, a friend dropping a ...