A GREAT many people whom I have talked to during intermissions at the Metropolitan Opera House seem opposed to the idea of a permanent claque, some going so far as to call it a cheap, disgraceful ...

THE claque at the Vienna Staatsopor was an exclusive group of forty innocent opera lovers with uncompromising ideas about good music and good singing. Joseph Schostal, the claque chef, a dignified man ...

The opera at Milan’s La Scala last week was Verdi’s Battle of Legnano, and the principals bore glittering reputations —Soprano Antonietta Stella, Tenor Franco Corelli. But as anxious to please as ...

Learn how to galvanize an enormous auditorium, tame an usherette and get the best seat in the house at Russia's principal theater: discover all this and more in an interview with a former claque.

What’s claque and how does one use this word in a conversation? Shashi Tharoor tells us in his weekly column ‘Word Of The Week’ Claque, noun: a group of people hired to applaud. Every political party ...