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Classical Music Agenda

As you might expect, there is not all that much to hear this week, with the Thanksgiving holiday and all. But you can give thanks for the chance to hear a few good concerts. MONDAY: >> Catch the final performance of Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera, a ...

From CHARLES DOWNEY, DCist,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: National Gallery of Art,  George Mason

DCist Goes to the Opera: Götterdämmerung

In 2006, when Washington National Opera opened its American Ring Cycle, few could have imagined that it would end as it did on Saturday night, with a concert performance of Götterdämmerung. After very promising productions of Das Rheingold and Die ...

From CHARLES DOWNEY, DCist,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Elizabeth Bishop,  Robert Wilson

DCist Goes to the Opera: Falstaff

On Saturday night, Washington National Opera opened the second production of its downsized fall season, Verdi's Falstaff. The regrettable postponement of the company's American Ring Cycle led to a hasty but resourceful reconfiguration of this year's ...

From CHARLES DOWNEY, DCist,  12 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Ford Motor Company,  Hawkins, Inc.,  Elizabeth Bishop,  British National Party,  Henry IV of England

DCist Goes to the Opera: 'Barber of Seville'

Washington National Opera's production of Rossini's overexposed opera buffa The Barber of Seville was, on the surface at least, hardly an exciting way to open the Washington National Opera season. The second performance last night, however, proved ...

From CHARLES DOWNEY, DCist,  15 Sep 2009

Take Me Out to the Opera, Again

This year's event, set for Saturday, September 12 (simulcast at 7 p.m., with the park open for "pre-game" activities at 5:30 p.m.) is sponsored by Target, MARS Corporation, the Washington Nationals, WMATA and MarcParc Valet, with media partners ABC ...

From CHARLES DOWNEY, DCist,  17 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Washington Nationals

Fringe Festival: Life in Death

This year's Capital Fringe Festival includes three productions of new chamber operas by local composers. After Michael Oberhauser's Magnum Opus, reviewed last week, there is Life in Death, a new opera by Gregg Martin, a former graduate student at ...

From CHARLES DOWNEY, DCist,  20 Jul 2009

Related Topics: Edgar Allan Poe,  James Rogers

Out of Frame: Séraphine and Tokyo Sonata

Séraphine Louis (1864-1942, dite Séraphine de Senlis), the subject of the recent film Séraphine, is not exactly an unknown painter. Her work is found in only a few museums now, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York (Les Pommes and Tree of ...

From CHARLES DOWNEY, DCist,  17 Jul 2009

Related Topics: Yolande Moreau (actor),  Museum of Modern Art,  Juliette (musician),  Academy Awards,  Henri Rousseau

Fringe Festival: Magnum Opus

The singing was generally just fine, with high points in the upper-register pianissimo of Sarah Philippa's Claire and the warm, burnished tone of Tricia Lepofsky as the kinder of the two muses, Polyhymnia, who as muse of sacred poetry seemed to have ...

From CHARLES DOWNEY, DCist,  13 Jul 2009

Related Topics: Eric Whitacre,  Benjamin Britten,  Peter Grimes,  Lorin Maazel

Out of Frame: Bloody Last Vampire

As demonstrated by so many remakes, often it is best to let a film remain in its genre or language of origin. Blood: The Last Vampire was apparently a pretty good, if somewhat short, manga film about a human-vampire half-breed who turns against her ...

From CHARLES DOWNEY, DCist,  10 Jul 2009

Related Topics: Jet Li,  Ronny Yu

Mary McLeod Bethune Statue Turns 35

"Hey, man, you know how these official ceremonies are," said Charles (Pee Wee) Jackson, who lives across the street from the park. "They'll probably have some symphony orchestra and everybody will be all dressed up and everything. So we decided to ...

From CHARLES DOWNEY, DCist,  10 Jul 2009

Related Topics: Mary McLeod Bethune,  Charles R. Jackson,  James Kilgore,  Frederick Douglass

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