Having made so many horse operas in his day, there are a handful of John Wayne Westerns that could easily (and perhaps undisputedly) be considered the best that the genre has to offer. Stagecoach was ...

Bellini did pull the drama off, with a concise series of dramatic confrontations, in his greatest opera, Norma; here the plot gets off to a slow start, most of an over-long first act devoted to ...