“Fedora,” the 1898 opera based on a wildly popular melodrama of the same name, is a “lovably preposterous potboiler.” So wrote Zachary Woolfe on Jan. 1, in The New York Times. I have to agree. In its ...

Victorien Sardou has written 17 shows including La Tosca (Bookwriter), Fernande (Playwright), A Scrap of Paper (Playwright), Diplomacy (Playwright), Divorcons (Playwright), Fedora (Playwright), ...

Fedora (1898) ranks as the second-most popular of Umberto Giordano’s twelve operas, after Andrea Chénier. A modest claim to be sure, but the work is the subject this season of new productions by two ...

On New Year’s Eve, New York’s Metropolitan Opera will premiere a new production of Umberto Giordano’s Fedora. First performed in 1898, the opera, which is based on a play of the same name by Victorien ...

If you take the basic plotline of pretty much any opera, you’re likely to encounter a story that would fit right in with your average soap opera. Take “Fedora,” the latest The Met: Live in HD ...