The newly renamed Washington National Opera returned to the recently renovated Kennedy Center Opera House with a new production of…
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.
Online references on Volpone In the woods of northern Virginia, Wolf Trap Foundation has premiered Volpone (The Fox), their…
In the southern community that is represented in Regina Taylors musical Crowns, the word on the street is our crowns…
The Mazeppa Legend in European Romanticism (1974), Hubert F. Babinski Online references on Mazeppa Vulture, dove, and arrow are the…
Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism (1995), Steven Watson Gertrude Stein Original serigraph…
Crave, a one-act drama that premiered in 1998 by the late Sarah Kane, comes out of the experimental and absurdist…
Elizabeth Futral plays the role of Princess Yueyang in “The First Emperor” during the final dress rehearsal Monday, Dec. 18,…
500 Clown Macbeth is the signature work of the Chicago-based performance art theater group 500 Clown. Intent on breaking through…
Blood is the image that dominates Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, a one-act opera written by composer Bela Bartk with libretto in…
www.dc-opera.org/ British composer Nicholas Maw’s impressive full-length opera Sophie’s Choice, based on William Styron’s well-known novel by the same title,…