At the final performance of “Il Postino” Saturday night, Los Angeles Opera was sold out and then some. I’m told the company scrambled to find seats for the company’s music director, James Conlon, who ...

“Il Postino,” which is having its debut run at Los Angeles Opera right now, is almost shockingly easy to like. Operatic premieres aren’t supposed to be like this. They’re supposed to be challenging to ...

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Opera Santa Barbara (OSB) brings to the Lobero Theatre stage this weekend Daniel Catán’s sweeping, melodic “Il Postino,” the company’s first production of an opera sung in Spanish. Inspired by the ...

After blowing a hole in the budget with a controversial Wagner “Ring” cycle in the midst of a sour economy, it would be understandable if the Los Angeles Opera reverted to a holding pattern of ...

Have you ever sat down to watch a movie and thought, ‘Hey, this would make a good opera’? No? Most people who saw the popular Italian, “Two Thumbs Way Up!” movie “Il Postino” back in the 1990s ...

Acclaimed Mexican-American composer and South Pasadena resident Daniel Cat?n has died in Austin, Texas, a University of Texas spokeswoman said Monday. He was 62. The cause of his death over the ...

NEW YORK - Mannes College The New School for Music presents the New York City premiere of IL POSTINO by Daniel Catán. The opera will be performed by the Mannes Opera with members of The Mannes ...

LOS ANGELES -- The latest contender for the title of Major New American Opera, Daniel Catán's "Il Postino," which opened at the Los Angeles Opera on Thursday night, is a Spanish-language work based on ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ordinary 69-year-old tenors are rarely entrusted with passionate love duets, but Plácido Domingo is no ordinary ...

In his last but equally career-defining role, Massimo Troisi played the simple postman who befriends exiled poet Pablo Neruda (Noiret), from whom he grows to love poetry. A favourite film of many, it ...

Il Tempo Del Postino is the flagship commission of the Manchester International Festival, in which 14 artists respond to a question - what if an exhibition was not a way to occupy space, but a way to ...