Carlos Alexander (born October 15, 1915) is a dramatic baritone and stage director of opera, best known as a singing-actor in German repertoire.

The only part of the opera known to most opera lovers is the Act 4 tenor aria "O, paradis!"

This series notably featured Cyrillic librettos to operas otherwise little known in the West.

Zimmermann, you will remember, was also the author of "Die Soldaten," a famously impenetrable opera known more for opera companies that don't produce it than those who do.

Kim Myong Hwan, master of the Korean narrative opera known as pansori, strives to preserve an ancient art.

Tomorrow night they offer the first of four festival performances of Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin," which may be the Russian opera best known in the West.

Le siège was Rossini's first French opera, known also in its Italian version as L'assedio di Corinto.

It is the second opera of the trio of operas known as Il trittico (Triptych).

The theatre staged the type of comic opera known as opera buffa which was less elaborate and therefore more economical than the full fledged opera seria.

Mei was the greatest actor in Chinese opera, known particularly for his female roles; in Beijing opera, men often portray women.