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Christoph Eschenbach Off to a Rough Start at NSO

Christoph Eschenbach will begin his first season as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra next fall, and the programming he has planned is encouraging. In his only concerts with the hometown band between the announcement of his appointment ...

From CHARLES DOWNEY, DCist,  15 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Christoph Eschenbach,  Giuseppe Verdi,  Matthias Goerne (musician),  Washington Post Company

Classical Music Agenda

This week's top picks on the agenda are centered on music old and new, and as usual in Washington there are some excellent free concerts to be heard. TOP PICKS: >> Three members of the French early music ensemble Les Folies Françoises — violinist ...

From CHARLES DOWNEY, DCist,  14 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Tim Butler,  La Scala,  Daniel Barenboim,  Jonas Kaufmann,  Erwin Schrott

Mariinsky Ballet's Sleeping Beauty

The Mariinsky Ballet returned to the Kennedy Center Opera House on Tuesday night for a run of performances of its classic production of The Sleeping Beauty. Classic can also be a nice way of saying tired, and this choreography by Marius Petipa, ...

From CHARLES DOWNEY, DCist,  11 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Marius Petipa

DCist Goes to the Symphony

The National Symphony Orchestra has been in a sort of leadership vacuum this season, with a carousel of guest conductors filling time until Christoph Eschenbach takes the helm next season. While the results have been varied, the month of January is ...

From CHARLES DOWNEY, DCist,  18 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Christoph Eschenbach,  Leonard Slatkin,  Emanuel Ax,  Samuel Barber

Washington National Opera: Playing It Safe

Opera, the extravagant art, tends to flourish in times of financial excess, meaning that the ongoing financial crisis has caused considerable collateral damage to this most expensive art form. In response to the crisis, Washington National Opera ...

From CHARLES DOWNEY, DCist,  12 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Los Angeles Opera,  Placido Domingo,  Salvatore Licitra,  Deborah Voigt,  James Morris

Christmas with the Lords

The Suspicious Cheese Lords are one of the more original acts in the local classical music world. An all-male choir founded by countertenor Clifton "Skip" West in 1998, the group has made a name for itself singing Renaissance polyphony in its original ...

From CHARLES DOWNEY, DCist,  17 Dec 2009

Related Topics: Pope John Paul II,  Pope Benedict XVI

Get Your Yuletide Cheer: Holiday Concerts

Christmas cheer is inevitable this time of year, but when it comes to holiday music, the range of choices can be daunting. Each year, we pick out what we think will be the most interesting concerts, the ones that will (hopefully) not make you roll ...

From CHARLES DOWNEY, DCist,  30 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Benjamin Britten,  Lorin Maazel,  Thomas Beecham

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

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