The most tragic of operatic tragedies, Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is the tale of a 15-year-old geisha in 1904 Nagasaki, Japan. Cio-Cio San (Butterfly) catches the...
Short of bringing back someone from the dead, the best science can do these days is create a three-dimensional hologram – a projected image that looks...
Since he launched his career as a boogie woogie piano player a dozen or so years ago, Cincinnati’s Ricky Nye has developed a large fan base...
Bearing in mind that the Dali Museum and the Mahaffey Theater will be open but extremely difficult to reach next week (March 4-10) because of the...
Cole Porter poured every ounce of wit, snark and alliterative ability he possessed into his lyrics for the 1948 musical comedy Kiss Me, Kate; as one...
As our friends across the bay are celebrating all things piratical with the annual Gasparilla Festival, life isn’t quite as … well, crazy here in St....
The holidays are here at last, right on time, and December’s arts and culture calendar is stuffed stocking-full of music, theater and other Christmas-themed stagecraft. There...
Most opera singers, Susan Hellman Spatafora believes, don’t choose opera as a life’s pursuit. It chooses them. “I used to do open mics, and write cheesy...
For 54 years, Webb’s City was one of the things visitors remembered most about St. Petersburg. From his flagship four-story building at the corner of 9th Street...
Opera may be something of an acquired taste, but for those who love it, no other art form comes close in terms of delivering drama, dynamics...
