The community at Catfish Row, including the cripple Porgy, sexpot Bess, thug Crown, and drug-dealer Sportin’ Life, spring to life…
Karren LaLonde Alenier
Karren Alenier is a swing-dancing poet whose opera, Gertrude Stein Invents A Jump Early On, with composer William Banfield and New York City’s Encompass New Opera Theatre artistic director Nancy Rhodes premiered in New York City in June 2005. She writes a monthly column for scene4.com entitled "The Steiny Road to Operadom." Read about her forthcoming book on opera—The Steiny Road to Operadom: The Making of American Operas at alenier.blogspot.com.
The music of Verdi’s I Vespri Siciliani opens majestically and alternates in turn with playful and emotionally dark interludes. Coming…
Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII in Reims Cathedral Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres barewalls.com Online references on Joan of…
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) composed Acis et Galatee to honor the Grand Dauphin, the son of Louis XIV. In the literary…
Fallen From Proust, a new play by by Norman Allen, is an entertaining comedy about relationships. Its fast-paced, clever dialogue…
Hallelujah, Baby! boasts a stellar list of musical theater artists: playwright Arthur Laurents (West Side Story and Gypsy), the composer…
Vocal Score Mazurca Sombrillos No 6 B From Luisa Fernanda By Torroba. Voice and piano. See more info… The flower…
As the wider than usual curtain sweeps across the stage, the music of The Highest Yellow in minimalist repetition announces…
What happens when people refuse to change, will not accept technological advances, and do not know how to cope in…
Madame Butterfly: Japonisme, Puccini, and the Search for the Real Cho-Cho-San by Jan van Rij is an engaging hobbyists project….
Strasburg Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Jan Latham-Koenig: Dialogues Des Carmelites (1999) DVD In Francis Poulencs Dialogues of the…
Wolf Trap presented a remarkable collaboration between the vibrant Parsons Dance Company, the sexy and intense Ahn Trio, and the…
Our capsule review of the 1998 San Francisco world premiere of the opera the film with Marlon Brando and Vivien…
The University of Maryland under the direction of Leon Major has commissioned an engaging new opera by music theater librettist…