All posts tagged "washington national opera"
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Ringing True: WNO’s Ring Cycle (review)
The first two operas in WNO's Ring Cycle are powerfully sung, brilliantly staged, and stunningly executed
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Ring Master: Francesca Zambello
As head of The Washington Opera, Francesca Zambello strives to make the artform as accessible and relevant as possible. Including Wagner's Ring Cycle.
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Delayed Launch: Washington National Opera’s “Carmen”
Carmen doesn't quite take off until the second act, but it's a flight worth taking
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Review: Cinderella at the Washington National Opera
WNO's Cinderella is joyous, humorous and eminently accessible for opera novices
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Classical Music: Spring Arts Preview 2015
This weekend, the D.C. Different Drummers’ Capital Pride Symphonic Band celebrates 35 years with a concert at the Atlas. Could there be a better way...
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Seaworthy: The Flying Dutchman returns to DC
The Washington National Opera revives a much-improved Flying Dutchman
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Dialogues of the Carmelites (Review)
The Washington National Opera’s Carmelites resonates with dark, complex themes
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Review: WNO’s “La Boheme”
WNO's "La Boheme" is saturated in uncompromising quality and creative detail
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Classical Music: Fall Arts Preview 2014
Whether your predilection is opera or chorale, piano or violin, quartet or orchestra — any or all — Washington offers the classical music lover a...
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Love Is the Drug
Although people often call Donizetti’s rom-com The Elixir of Love a good opera for the uninitiated, director Stephen Lawless’s production requires a caveat: Remember that...
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Whale Song
There is a special hell for serious music-lovers, and in one molten corner resides a certain kind of contemporary classical that puts more emphasis on...
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One Way or Another
The funny thing about the Washington National Opera's production of Verdi's The Force of Destiny is that it actually works. Despite an awkward first scene,...
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Showy Boat
In a second act scene in Show Boat, the character Magnolia auditions to be a singer at Chicago's popular Trocadero Club. Magnolia was a star...
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Who's That Girl?
In the words of Jean Genet, ''Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.'' And anyone who likes their...
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Cocksure
Offering plenty of curb appeal in the form of wit, slapstick, a libidinous thundering bass, damsels in distress, sword fights and a reasonably gratifying comeuppance,...
