Maamoun Youssef

May 10, 2016 By Eric A. Gordon

Great Scott is a grand modern send-up of every imaginable operatic cliché and tradition: It's a hoot and a half!

April 11, 2016 By Eric A. Gordon

Pepperdine University's Theatre Department has just presented a short four-performance run of the classic.

March 23, 2016 By Eric A. Gordon

It is the first opera written about the Iraq War, and it is highly worthwhile.

February 24, 2016 By Eric A. Gordon

Of the hundreds of opera performances I have attended over a lifetime, rarely have I been so emotionally stirred as I was by this one.

February 12, 2016 By Eric A. Gordon

In three acts, the opera features more than 20 roles, plus chorus, in scenes that alternate between the Schindler home and the factory.