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The plot is wacky and not at all politically correct, but Rossini's cross-cultural opera shattered another stereotype: that of the damsel in distress.

What to Expect When You Are Expecting is a perennial best-seller, but its detailed descriptions of virtually every moment of pregnancy can also make mothers-to-be a little crazy. Some women in pregnancy crave all that information, but for others, it's information overload.

It's not just "Hi-ho, Silver!" — there are four whole acts, not to mention that apple and bow.

An opera with a most unusual — and very disturbing — 'bad guy': a little old lady who believes that anyone who doesn't agree with her moral code must pay a terrible price.

Placido Domingo takes on his 126th role: as Bajazet in Handel's taut drama Tamerlano..

Brooklyn verismo, courtesy of American composer William Bolcom: the trials of Italian immigrants — some of them illegal — in 1950s Red Hook.

The journalist Juan Williams is out with a new book this week. In it, he makes the case that his acrimonious termination last fall by NPR is part of a larger and ominous pattern of suppressing undesired voices.

The story of a man so in love that he's willing to burn down Rome — and the emperor who is able to forgive him.

There are many failed operas based on Romeo and Juliet — Bellini created one of the rare successes.

Lully shows us what happens when mere mortals get involved with the gods.