Admired yet underestimated: that was the fate of German-French operetta composer Jacques Offenbach, who died 140 ago. Here's a look back at his work. Dancers holding up high the seams of their frilly ...

Offenbach, who also launched avant-garde innovations in stagecraft and design, played a leading role in cultural change, not only in music but also in literature, art, and politics, as he offered an ...

Read the short stories? Seen the play? Now experience the opera. That’s how it might have been for nineteenth-century Parisians and Les Contes d’Hoffmann, which Offenbach himself had seen as a play at ...