Ariadne auf Naxos Music by Richard Strauss Libretto by Hugo van Hofmannsthal Conducted by Andreas Delfs Directed by Chris Alexander…
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.
Falstaff Music by Giuseppe Verdi Libretto by Arrigo Boito based on William Shakespeare’s plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and…
My dear late best friend Danny Cariaga, classical music critic extraordinaire of the Los Angeles Times, once observed that people…
by Mark Adamo Summer Opera Theatre Company of Washington, DC June 16, 20, and 24, 2007 website Since it’s 1998…
The lyricism of Vivaldi’s Virgins by Barbara Quick rivals the subject matter of this well written and researched novel…
If you have been promising yourself that this year you will dig in to appreciate and understand contemporary classical music,…
Opera by composer William Bolcom Libretto by Arnold Weinstein and Arthur Miller Washington National Opera November 5, 8, 11, 14,…
For Washington National Opera, director Francesca Zambello has developed an “American Ring” based on Richard Wagner’s Der Ring Des Nebelungen….
By Gaetano Donizetti Libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Sant-George, Jean-Francois-Alfred Bayard. Washington National Opera, Plácido Domingo, General Director March 31-April…
Steve Tipton as The Proprietor and Peter Joshua as Giuseppe Zangara 2004 Broadway Revival Cast CD Assassins Vocal Selection Revised…
Glyndbourne production: La Clemenza Di Tito DVD Libretto to La Clemenza di Tito in Italian and English By Wolfgang Amadeus…
Lysistrata -Mark Adamo Illustration from Lysistrata by Aubrey Beardsley Buy it at Art.com Lysistrata or The Nude Goddess by Mark…
The Metropolitan Opera commissioned and premiered an ambitious new opera, An American Tragedy, by composer Tobias Picker with a libretto…
Rinde Eckert, author of And God Created Great Whales, is back on stage with his new theater work entitled Horizon….