Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Monday, October 19, 2015
The In Series' latest opera—part of its "Made In America" series—is about as dull as life on the farm.
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 05:34PMTuesday, July 21, 2015
If you’re going to take liberties with famous works of literature, you might as well give us a happy ending or more sex and violence or something.
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 03:47PMTuesday, June 16, 2015
Cross-dressing, switched identities, and R. Kelly trapped-in-the-closet scenarios deign to prevent a count from sexually assaulting or murdering anyone.
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 06:52PMTuesday, March 10, 2015
Parallels to Wagner’s life: He once took a long boat trip and probably felt persecuted and sexually frustrated a lot.
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 12:41PMMonday, February 23, 2015
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Few things puncture opera’s highbrow conceit better than hearing a soprano sing “It’s my way or the highway.”
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 12:07PMTuesday, September 16, 2014
Classical operas played with impressive talent through a South African lens.
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 01:08PMFriday, February 28, 2014
Opera fans don’t get many opportunities to see things that nearly no one in the audience has seen before. It’s a test of how a work of art stands up on its own, without any famous aria …
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 04:07PMFriday, September 20, 2013
We've all been there. Falling for the wrong guy, the one you know will break your heart, the one who killed your last boyfriend and you are scheming to kill in a murder-suicide revenge plot,…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 10:45AMTuesday, May 7, 2013
The Washington National Opera’s new production of Show Boat, the 1927 musical, opened only a few weeks after the release of “Accidental Racist,” the misbegotten country-rap duet in whi…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 10:22AMTuesday, December 18, 2012
A Christmas Carol is like crack to theater companies: do it every year or not at all, but after your first hit, you’re hooked on that sweet holiday revenue. No other play can rake in the k…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 10:00AMWednesday, August 8, 2012
Marvin Hamlisch, who died Monday at the age of 68, won’t be remembered primarily as the National Symphony Orchestra’s former pops conductor, but he was the ideal man for the job. A lot …
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 03:04PMSaturday, February 11, 2012
Philip Glass’s vision of hell has Orpheus and Eurydice being grilled about their love life by judges holding tea cups; it looks a lot like marriage counseling.
This probably wasn’t the p…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 04:43PM 
