André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry beat Disney to the punch when he set "Beauty and the Beast" to music. Of course, when the 18th-century French composer wrote his opera, Disney wasn't around. That gave him ...

Skylight Music Theatre presents an inventive new version of André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry's heartwarming, 18th-century light opera, Beauty and the Beast (Zémire et Azor). Based on the original fairy ...

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Conductor Ryan Brown and his fine early-music ensemble, Opera Lafayette, have made it their mission to explore seldom-trod byways of 18th-century opera. The performance they gave at the Kennedy Center ...