This operatic version of an American classic gets better the more it's performed.
Karren LaLonde AlenierMusicDC,
The Washington National Opera production of “Moby-Dick” is a crowd pleaser. Jake Heggie’s music is tonal, sometimes glancing off Puccini, but ventures out with touches of Philip Glass minimalism and other occasions of atonality that make it satisfyingly contemporary. Maestro ...
This lively staging of Brecht's masterpiece gets its punch from the magnetic Kathleen Turner.
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Masterful, magnetic, and entertaining best describe the outstanding performance seen Feb. 6 by stage and screen star Kathleen Turner in the uniquely engaging Arena Stage production of Bertolt Brecht’s masterpiece “Mother Courage and Her Children.” With lines like “No one ...
The Folger's new production leaves the audience engaged, if not breathless.
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The Folger Shakespeare Library’s Elizabethan theater has been transformed from its usual proscenium stage to theater in the round for Robert Richmond’s extraordinary production of “Richard III.” Every element — actors, costumes, scenic design, lighting, sound design and music — ...
The pianist wows both sides of the classical divide with innovative performances of Scarlatti and Cage.
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Making his Kennedy Center debut, pianist David Greilsammer is not only a talented musician but also a man with engaging ideas that reach out to audiences across a wide spectrum of musical history. As part of its Hayes Piano Series, ...
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Deborah Voigt in the title role of "Salome"
Photo by Scott Suchman
Salome
Music and libretto by Richard Strauss
(in German, based on the Biblical story and Oscar Wilde’s play Salome)
Conducted by Philippe Auguin
Directed by Francesca ...
Karren LaLonde AlenierMusicDC,
Hamlet
Liam Bonner and Elizabeth Futral in Ambroise Thomas' "Hamlet" at Washington National Opera
Opera in five acts
Music by Ambroise Thomas
Libretto in French by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier, adapted from William Shakespeare’s play "Hamlet"
Conducted ...
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Ariadne auf Naxos
Music by Richard Strauss
Libretto by Hugo van Hofmannsthal
Conducted by Andreas Delfs
Directed by Chris Alexander
Washington National Opera
October 24-November 13, 2009
http://www.dc-opera.org/
Photo: Karin Cooper
Transformation is the focus of Richard ...
Karren LaLonde AlenierMusicDC,
Falstaff
Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Arrigo Boito based on William Shakespeare’s plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV
Conducted by Sebastian Lang-Lessing
Directed by Christian Räth
Washington National Opera
October 10-30, 2009
http://www.dc-opera.org/
Photo: ...
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by Mark Adamo
Summer Opera Theatre Company of Washington, DC
June 16, 20, and 24, 2007
website
Since it’s 1998 premiere by the Houston Grand Opera, Mark Adamo’s first opera Little Women has remarkably joined the ...
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Opera by composer William Bolcom
Libretto by Arnold Weinstein and Arthur Miller
Washington National Opera
November 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 2007
http://www.dcopera.org/ourseason/bridge.asp
Photo by Karen Cooper
A View from the Bridge with music ...
