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 ...

But L.A.’s old “Falstaff” was more than just old, it was in the actual DNA of Los Angeles Opera. Created in 1982 by the Los Angeles Philharmonic for its music director, ...

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 ...

Volle’s Falstaff leans into those subtleties. In his most recent Met assignments — as a futilely disempowered Wotan in the “Ring” cycle and a salt-of-the-earth Hans Sachs in “Die ...

The Falstaff Tapper keg came with its own plastic tapper, but the promotion proved to be a financial disaster. Perhaps not grasping how much of a throw-away society America had become, Falstaff ...

So Falstaff, just like Anheuser-Busch, brewed their beer all the way through, then at the end removed the alcohol with a special “de-alcoholizer” machine. This decision proved to be of critical ...