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Matthew Worth in Virginia Opera's Orphee by Philip Glass American opera didn't happen until more than 140 years after the first opera, Jacobo Pe...
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Matt Worth as Curly There is a sudden upsurge of barihunks crossing over from opera to musical theater. We recently featured Tom Corbeil, who ha...
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A fall Philip Glass Festival, a return engagement by the Takács Quartet for a two-concert cycle of the six Bartók string quartets, the local debut ...
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Michael Mayes & Seth Mease Carico We've always maintained that the Fort Worth Opera Festival is one of the best opera festivals in the United St...
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Virginia Opera has added a fifth production, of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical “Carousel,” to its 2012-13 season. Eight performances will be sta...
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May 12, 2012
OPERA: The Tales of Hoffman (in French)
COMPOSER: Jacques Offenbach
If ever a man was unlucky at love, it’s Hoffmann, the wild-ey...
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Add caption It's not often that we feature Tosca and it's not that we don't love the opera. It's just that Scarpia hasn't been the quintessentia...
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Virginia Opera Steven Jarvi conducting Feb. 17, Richmond CenterStage Philip Glass skeptics (among whose number I’ve counted myself since the ...
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Philip Glass secured his notable place in the history of 20th century opera with such epic works as "Einstein on the Beach" and "Satyagraha." But...
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Anne Midgette reports in the Washington Post: Glass in Virginia: Two opera companies offer audiences more to love
Kyle Gann on music after the...
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Classical performances in and around Richmond, with selected events elsewhere in Virginia and the Washington area. Program information, provided by...
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Philip Glass, Martina Arroyo, Joyce DiDonato and Gerald Finley at 2009 Opera News awards. [Photo by Dario Acost] Was there any doubt that we...
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Tenor James Valenti: Minnesota Opera, marketing hot men and not just barihunks We love the Minnesota Opera for numerous reasons, including their...
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Matthew Worth as Orphée We've been big proponents of Philip Glass' operas, so we were thrilled to see that the Virginia Opera will be staging h...
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Oddly we have a busy two weeks coming up - no pre-Christmas slow down for us!
This evening we have our Holiday fundraiser at the Newberry Librar...
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Amber Wagner and Brandon Jovanovich with cast in Act II of Ariadne auf Naxos . Photo: Dan Rest/LOC 2011 I can’t shake the feeling there’s a chang...
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It was a great afternoon at Lyric's Ariadne . They have assembled a remarkable cast - with some clearly established artists such as Alice Coote a...
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Baritone Matthew Worth performs music from Minnesota Opera's "Cosi fan tutte" in the Maud Moon Weyerhauser Music Studio.
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Michael Weyandt & Matthew Worth Loren Maazel took his Castleton Festival west to California from Virginia, where it was met with the same critic...
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Tradition (or, as Arturo Toscanini would have it, bad habit) decrees that critics wrap up each year with a list of best performances. And who am I ...
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