The music school at Rice University is offering a wide range of concerts and collaborations for the 2025-26 year.

While much has changed since the time of William Shakespeare, human nature has not, according to Deanna Sparrow, who taught courses on the playwright at Slippery Rock University. She ...

Falstaff, based on The Merry Wives of Windsor, was Verdi’s third Shakespearean opera, an opera buffa which the composer ...

From the animatronic cat on the bar of the Garter inn to the rowers’ crew who haul their craft across the stage and the military ranks of “Dig for Victory” cabbages arrayed in Ford’s garden, all the ...

Sean Holmes’s revival of the c1597 Falstaff spin-off reputedly written at Elizabeth I’s request (she wanted to see the fat ...

Globe's slimline Falstaff is a half-fat hero, in a Merry Wives Of Windsor that's not quite merry enough. By PATRICK MARMION . Published: 14:02 EDT, 10 July 2025 | Updated: 12:43 EDT, 11 July 2025 ...

GENEVA — Geneva Light Opera is presenting three fully staged performances of Giuseppe Verdi’s comic opera “Falstaff,” which is based on Shakespeare’s “Merry Wives of Windsor,” later this month.

Even the most hardcore Bardolator would have to acknowledge that in a hierarchy of Shakespeare’s works, The Merry Wives of ...

Sean Holmes’s revival of the Falstaff spin-off reputedly written at Elizabeth I’s request (it’s suggested she wanted to see the fat knight in love after watching the Henry IV plays) is lucid ...

Everything in Falstaff depends on pace and agility: the near-octogenarian composer’s music bustles, swerves and pivots at a fantastic lick. Those interminable breaks made it feel that we were watching ...