FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 29, 2026 SATURDAY, MAY 9, 2026 @3:00pm “Children’s Corner” – a concert in support of the ACCA Child Development CenterSaturday, May 9th @3:00pmThe United Baptist Church in Annandale,…
Author: Maggie Ramsey
World-Class Conservatory Orchestra Gives Beautiful Mahler 4 at Washington National Cathedral
It is always a privilege to experience the beauty of the gothic masterpiece that is Washington National Cathedral, and doubly so with music. The space itself is only enhanced by…
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…
IN Series Concludes PASSION PLAYS Festival With For Women Serving Time
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…
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…
From the Opera Stage to the Screen: One Storytelling Tradition Leading to Another
For as long as I can remember, opera has been the foundation of how I understand storytelling. I joined the children’s chorus at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm when…