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Milwaukee’s Florentine Opera is the city’s oldest fully professional performing arts organization. It started as the Italian Opera Chorus in 1933 and…
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When we think of modern opera, often names such as Puccini, Wagner and Mozart come to mind. But opera, the way we know it, can trace its lineage back to…
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The Florentine Opera presents Viva Opera! March 16 and 18 at the Marcus Center's Uihlein Hall. It's an evening of some of opera's greatest hits, featuring…
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Music historians generally agree that Western opera began around the turn of the 17th Century in Europe. However, the modern repertoire generally ignores…
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The Florentine Opera kicks off its fall season in a decidedly lighthearted mood. Franz Lehár’s operetta, The Merry Widow, premiered in Vienna in 1905 and…
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This weekend, the Florentine Opera closes out its 2016-2017 season with one of the most beloved operas of all-time, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. It’s…
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Productions by the Milwaukee Opera Theatre are always a little offbeat and a lot of fun. But their staging of The Mikado makes those standards seem a bit…
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While most of us might be familiar with the Disney version of Beauty & the Beast, the opera of the same name is an entirely different spectacle. Based on…
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Mozart’s Don Giovanni - the Don Juan story - is one of the great operas in the Western canon. Many music historians consider it to be one of the greatest…
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Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton often get much of the credit for the women’s suffragist movement in this country in the 19th Century. And…