The New York City Opera’s opening production of Handel’s Julius Caesar last week was just minutes old when Contralto Maureen Forrester fixed hand to forehead, shuddered “Woe unto me,” and fainted dead ...

Manhattan playgoers last week saw Vickie (by S. M. Herzig; produced by Frank Mandel) do a bad job with a good idea. A satire on U.S. women’s war activities, it attacked the funny bone by way of the ...