Although samples of zarzuela music have turned up in its recent concerts and galas, opening today at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is L.A. Opera’s first full-length zarzuela, Federico Moreno ...

The upcoming Opera and Zarzuela Scenes performance on March 13, 2025 at the Music Center Recital Hall on campus, will bring a wider cultural look at the artform from several Spanish-speaking countries ...

Friday’s musical question was: Can a 17th-century Spanish baroque zarzuela find love among 21st-century Dallas elementary students? Judging from the laughter and applause the operetta received ...

Just ask Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo. He grew up on the Spanish light operas, akin to the operettas of Gilbert & Sullivan, Offenbach and Léhar. His parents were singing stars who formed a ...

Apr. 2—Luigi Boccherini's "Doña Clementina" is making its American debut this April with Opera Southwest. A comedy of manners in the form of a zarzuela, or Spanish operetta, "Doña Clementina ...

Zarzuela dates back to the 17th century, when it was created to entertain Spain’s royalty. Its heyday, however, came in a late-19th-century revival that sought to challenge the dominance of ...

A comedy of manners in the form of a zarzuela, or Spanish operetta, “Doña Clementina” premiered in 1786, the same year as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro.” ...

Chances are you won’t have heard of zarzuela. A close cousin of opera, Madrid’s homegrown genre of musical theatre has long been passed over in favour of flamenco. Part of the problem is that ...