Showing posts with label WNO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WNO. Show all posts
Monday, May 8, 2017

WNO: A Butterfly for Our Times

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What do you look for when you revisit such a frequently performed work as Madama Butterfly ?  I prefer to see new or rarely shown works, bu...
Tuesday, March 14, 2017

WNO's Dead Man Walking

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On Saturday evening I witnessed an execution by lethal injection. OK, it wasn't a real execution, but an operatic one, terrifying noneth...
Sunday, February 14, 2016

Kurt Weill's Lost in the Stars at WNO

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K urt Weill's last work Lost in the Stars is set in South Africa, but in the new Washington National Opera's production it could ...
Monday, November 16, 2015

Appomattox, Take Two

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In my previous blog, I noted that technology moves forward but human nature does not. One could add that laws make progress but human natur...
Monday, September 21, 2015

WNO Opens 60th Season

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Washington National Opera opened its 60th Season on Saturday and what an eventful season it promises to be! In addition to the complete Wagn...
Monday, May 11, 2015

Cinderella And Other Fairy Tales

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After more than 300 years,  Charles Perrault's  story of Cinderella continues to captivate, whether presented as a movie, opera, ballet...
Saturday, February 28, 2015

French Revolution In Opera

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Last week I saw two operas set in the time of Robespierre's relentless beheadings.   The first, Andrea Chénier , broadcast from the Roya...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

Florencia in the Amazon: Remembering Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Washington National Opera opened its 2014-2015 season with Daniel Catán's opera Florencia in the Amazon. The work is said to be inspi...