Sunday, October 7, 2018
The Washington National Opera (WNO) turns again to one of Giuseppe Verdi’s beloved masterworks to begin their 2018-2019 season. Artistic Director Francesca Zambello is joined this season b…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:59PMSunday, September 30, 2018
As the winner of eight Academy Awards in 1954 including Best Picture, and holding the position of No. 8 on the American Film Institute’s top-100 list, the inclusion of “On the Water…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:16PMSunday, July 8, 2018
This is opera? It was only an hour. The music was jazzy and energetic. It was funny. There was gratuitous partial nudity. The leading role was the only one singing (or speaking!). The story …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:02PMFriday, June 8, 2018
“How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” at the John F. Kennedy Center is a delightful, high-energy production that can hardly be described as “semi-staged.” A fabulous cas…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:45PMMonday, May 21, 2018
Sunday evening’s Washington National Opera Gala was as much a celebration of iconic American musician Leonard Bernstein, whose music was featured exclusively, as it was the National Opera.…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:10PMSunday, April 29, 2018
In an all-Tchaikovsky program, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra joined forces with the Baltimore School for the Arts, presenting a program that highlighted some of the more classic works of …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:44PMFriday, March 9, 2018
The Philadelphia Orchestra rarely misses a year in which they trek down to either the Kennedy Center or Strathmore upon invitation of Washington Performing Arts to present a concert that lik…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:06AMSunday, March 4, 2018
The Washington National Opera, in collaboration with Opera Philadelphia and the Minnesota Opera, has mounted a new production of Giuseppe Verdi’s dramatic masterwork “Don Carlo,̶…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:48PMMonday, January 22, 2018
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) regularly makes the case for their consideration amongst the nation’s finest orchestras, but perhaps seldom so strongly as with the quality displayed…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:36PMMonday, November 13, 2017
In the cozy, slightly chilly, Bavarian-esque theater of the Wesley United Methodist Church on Connecticut Avenue, Artistic Director Katerina Souvorova stood before the audience, informing th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:00PMSunday, November 5, 2017
It has been a decade since the Washington National Opera last presented a Baroque opera. The successes of the collaborative talents involved with their current production of Handel’s ̶…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:37PMSunday, October 29, 2017
Despite a last-minute change in featured soloist, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Marin Alsop presented a fine performance Saturday evening at Strathmore Music Hall. Depa…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:14PMSunday, October 22, 2017
In their “Symphonic Stories” themed program Saturday evening at Strathmore, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and guest conductor Jun Märkl presented a polished performance of works most…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:25PMSunday, October 8, 2017
The Virginia Opera continued their season-opening production Saturday night at the George Mason University Center for the Arts with Camille Saint-Saёns’ biblical, seductive psychodrama, �…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:01PMSaturday, September 30, 2017
This weekend’s National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) program highlights two iconic American composers of the previous century, along with a very brief work by John Adams, whose compositional v…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:11PMSunday, September 24, 2017
This weekend, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra continued their season with another thematic program under the leadership of Music Director, Marin Alsop at Strathmore Music Hall. This time, the t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:06PMSaturday, September 16, 2017
In their first subscription series performance of the season, the Baltimore Symphony filled Strathmore with sounds that reminded why the DC Metro area is so lucky to be their “second home.…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:14AMThursday, September 14, 2017
In its season opener, the Washington National Opera presents an “Aida” that, despite the interpretive efforts of the design team, still has Verdi’s voice ringing loudest and t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:38PMSaturday, May 20, 2017
Music and film have shared an intersecting path for over a century, from the days of unscripted piano accompanying silent films to the modern practice of orchestral scores recorded to coale…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:15AMTuesday, May 2, 2017
Saturday’s performance by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at Strathmore explored the connections music has to the most basic elements of human consciousness. Spirituality, cognizance, and…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:34PMSunday, April 30, 2017
There’s something about listening to Barbershop music in an intimate space that seems “just right.” The tight harmonies, subtle inflections, and story-telling lyrics make being up clos…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:00PMSaturday, April 8, 2017
Virtuosity was on full display at Strathmore Thursday evening for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Berlioz’s “Symphonie fantastique” and Paganini’s “Violin Conce…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:27PM 
