A riches of arts in the year's last quarter

Arizona Opera is great at showing the classics. But this season, it’s stepping out of its comfort zone and staging the U.S. premiere of “Arizona Lady.” It was penned as a love letter to the Southwest back in 1953, and promises a “wacky libretto” (hey, that’s what the company called it) and an opera reminiscent of the musical comedies from Hollywood’s Golden Age.