Washington National Opera’s performance of the musical theater classic West Side Story, on May 15, 2026, at The Music Center…
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." She is author of The Steiny Road to Operadom: The Making of American Operas. Her latest poetry collection is how we hold on. She is editor of From the Belly: Poets Respond to Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons, a three-book series. More at Alenier.com
Robert Ward’s neo-romantic music in his opera The Crucible drives the disturbing plot about the Salem witch trials with deceptive…
Like a minister gathering in her flock on Sunday afternoon March 15, 2026, Washington National Opera Artistic Director Francesca Zambello…
Intelligence, an opera by Jake Haggie and Gene Scheer, deals with the emotional load of two Virginia women, one white…
In eight performances from December 6 to 14 (at the Pop-Up Theater in Washington, DC) and December 19 to 21…
On November 23, 2025, Washington Concert Opera (WCO) presented a performance of Iphigénie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck. The…
In Series Artistic Director Timothy Nelson opened the 2025-2026 season in Washington, DC, with a spectacular operatic adaptation of Alessandro…
A master storyteller presents himself in the 90-minute play “Kevin Kling: Unraveled.” Yes, Kevin Kling wrote the play structured on…
On May 23, 2025, Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center Opera House under the direction of Francesca Zambello and…
On May 2, 2025, Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center Opera House under the direction of Tomer Zvulun and…
Washington Concert Opera led by the estimable Anthony Walker treated an enthusiastic audience to a magnificent production of Mozart’s La…
Completed in 1887, “Morgiane, ou Le sultan d’Ispahan,” by composer Edmond Dédé and librettist Louis Brunet received its world premiere…
In a glancing Wayne’s World meets West Side Story production, award-winning director Raymond O. Caldwell brings to Washington, DC, and…