Their third production in as many weeks, IN Series’ For Women Serving Time is an excellent meditation on women in prison. It belongs in this group of Passion plays because…
Author: Maggie Ramsey
Washington National Opera’s Cafritz Young Artists Program Present Menotti’s Old Maid and the Thief, April 16 at 7 p.m.
Audiences invited to attend with an accessible “pay what you can” donation (Washington, D.C.) –Washington National Opera’s Cafritz Young Artists Program will perform Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Old Maid and…
Washington National Opera’s The Crucible: An American Classic, Operatized
“Let us not see witches in silly girls.” So says Rebecca Nurse in the first act of Robert Ward’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning operatic adaptation of The Crucible, and for a moment the…
Annapolis Opera’s Hansel and Gretel: An Updated Setting That Works
With no curtain hiding it, the audience could enjoy Edward T. Morris’s angular, disjointed, abstract design of the ever-present trees on the set as they sat down in the theater…
IN Series’ Passio Gives Artists the Opportunity to Put Their Passions on Display
Continuing their Passion Plays festival with this second in a series of three works, IN Series this past weekend featured Passio, a work produced by Maribeth Diggle and Lucie de…
Washington Concert Opera Brings the House Down with Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers
Going in to Washington Concert Opera’s production of The Pearl Fishers on Saturday, I had low expectations as this was the composer’s first major opera to be produced professionally. My…
Washington National Opera Comes Back With Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha
Treemonisha is a triumph for several reasons. The score may not show off the voices like some of the bel canto classics, it takes until the end of the first…
IN Series Opens PASSION PLAYS: A FESTIVAL with Beautiful Adaptation of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion
“Small is the new grand opera.” So said Artistic Director Timothy Nelson prior to the performance of Only The Air I attended last weekend, and time and time again IN…
Opera Baltimore Offers Rare Bel Canto Gem Lucrezia Borgia
Although one might not expect much from a concert opera with piano, Opera Baltimore’s latest production, of Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia, proves that we should neither doubt the power of the…
Interview with Claire Griffin, Soprano Soloist for Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the UNCSA Orchestra at Washington National Cathedral
Celebrating over sixty years as the nation’s first state-supported arts school, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) next month on April 14 at 7:30 P.M. brings…