It didn’t take long for Elizabeth Biddle ’13 to fall in love with Gilbert & Sullivan. One turn in the role of Edith, from the opera duo’s The Pirates of Penzance, a Smith theatre production in 2011, ...
Flurries of snow, accompanied by eerie, swooshing music, stream past a panoramic view dominated by an enormous mountain peak. A spectral chorus intones a few cryptic lines about life and death. Then, ...
There is no house in the United States dedicated to presenting works from a prominent corner of homegrown music theater repertory. By Seth Colter Walls Whenever I’m trying to sell a friend on a night ...
The latest offering from the ever-adventurous Opera Parallèle — a production of the comic opera “Flight” that ran for three performances over the weekend at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts — had ...
You lug your wicker hamper across the stiletto-punctured lawn and bag a spot beside the ha-ha. You say “ha-ha” a lot because this is the only chance you get. Smoothing your frock or dinner jacket, you ...
It is the botched restoration that just keeps giving. Beast Jesus — the "Ecce Homo" fresco that now resembles a primate thanks to octonagerian restorer Cecilia Giménez — will make its stage debut this ...
BLOC’s spring double bill brings together two short comic operas, THE ZOO and TRIAL BY JURY, and it’s the kind of evening ...
It's been a comic. A TV series. A movie. A piggy bank. A Monopoly board. And now Tintin is to be an opera. An opera. Based on the Tintin comic The Castafiore Emerald, which does to be fair, feature ...
CASTLETON, Va. — The Senate is no longer a locus of oratory, and the House is a haven for demagogues. The president can't get legislation enacted, so he plays small ball, tweaking a vast regulatory ...
The double bill at Kirkland House is a perfect escape for anyone tired of studying. And who isn't? The project was cooked up by seniors to fill up their free springtime, and under the leadership of ...