There’s an opera hidden inside Houston Grand Opera’s Resilience Theater at the George R. Brown Convention Center. Can you find it? It’s a masterpiece; that’s a certainty. It’s also wickedly funny.

It’s that narcotic moment of creative bliss, that point at which all the elements of a production magically coalesce, producing something far greater than the sum of its parts. Getting there, though, ...

Among the many reasons “The Barber of Seville” opera is hugely popular worldwide, here are three: Its music is instantly familiar, thanks to its usage in the 1950 Bugs Bunny cartoon “Rabbit of Seville ...