As stage director Jill Anna Ponasik describes it, "Viva la Mamma!" sounds like the kind of office comedy many of us have enjoyed watching — or not enjoyed being part of. "You've got a group of 11 ...

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Poking fun at every aspect of opera and stocked with colorful characters who are over-the-top opera stereotypes, "Viva la Mamma" is accessible, digestible and enjoyable for even the most ardent opera ...

Florentine Opera's new double bill is a musical office comedy that gently lampoons the act and art of putting on an opera — or doing anything else with creative, ambitious, temperamental people, like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jill Anna Ponasik is stage directing Florentine Opera's "Viva La Mamma." "You've got a group of 11 people supposedly trying to ...

Jill Anna Ponasik is stage directing Florentine Opera's "Viva La Mamma." "You've got a group of 11 people supposedly trying to make this production together, but they're all working at cross-purposes, ...

"Viva la Mamma!" is an opera about an opera company trying to rehearse a new show, but everything falls to pieces. Stage director Jill Anna Ponasik compares "Viva la Mamma!" to "Noises Off" and ...