"Love and Romance: A Night of Italian Opera" will be presented Feb. 11 by Mechanics Hall. This is the third year the concert has been presented close to Valentine's Day. To enhance the romantic mood, ...

Romance is in the air at Opéra Louisiane. Make that failed romance, when the company opens Jacques Offenbach's grand opera, "The Tales of Hoffmann," on Friday in the Raising Cane's River Center ...

In a short program note for “The Romance of the Rose,” given its world premiere by Long Beach Opera over the weekend, the composer Kate Soper suggests that opera “is a good receptacle for the messy ...

Romantic French novels seemed to fascinate late 20th century musical theater artists, inspiring the likes of “Beauty and the Beast,” “Les Miserables,” “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” and, most notably, ...

Tivoli Treloar, as the Lover, second from left, presents a white rose to Lucas Steele as the Dreamer in Kate Soper's "The Romance of the Rose" at the Warner Grand Theatre in San Pedro. To the right ...