It’s always a challenge to bring new life to an age-old story. The Hat City Music Theater was certainly up to that task Saturday night, re-enervating the Engelbert Humperdinck opera “Hansel & Gretel” for a quarter-full Hutchins Concert Hall at the Maine Center for the… Read More
    The London City Opera production of “The Merry Widow,” which was performed endearingly Thursday at the Maine Center for the Arts, may have reminded some audience members of operas by Richard Strauss. Others may have been thinking of operettas by Gilbert and Sullivan. But the score by Franz… Read More