Monday, May 16, 2016
New operas can scare you for all the wrong reasons. You worry that the sets will malfunction, or the singers.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:56PMSaturday, February 20, 2016
"Alice (in Wonderland) is a big, colorful acid trip of a ballet, a welcome update of Lewis Carroll's classic tale that aims to meet the action-packed expectations of contemporary audiences.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:10PMSunday, January 24, 2016
Semantically speaking, opera-goers fall into two distinct categories. About half say they go to "hear" opera. The rest prefer to say they go "see" it.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:34PMSunday, December 27, 2015
Opera is set up for the safe bet — for commodities as sure and sound as Mozart and Verdi — and suddenly that's wholly inconvenient.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:55AMWednesday, December 16, 2015
The Lyric Opera couldn't have known five years ago, when it started planning "Bel Canto," that terrorism would be the hottest topic in America the very week the work would premiere.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:56PMMonday, November 23, 2015
Arts groups crash but they rarely burn. We see it all the time: a financial crisis, a plea for help and a comeback.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:41AMFriday, November 20, 2015
To be a great arts organization you have to produce great art. First. You have to put on the kind of shows that win hearts and change lives, that make people comfortable and then make them
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:28AMSunday, November 8, 2015
Opera Colorado began its Saturday performance of "Aida" with some victorious news, then followed that up with a winning show.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:49PMFriday, November 6, 2015
Alexandra LoBianco is the kind of soprano the opera world adores. She has a big voice and a good attitude.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:44AMWednesday, November 4, 2015
"Great Scott" is an opera about every beastly thing about opera, so it is possible the work's inventors meant to create a beast.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:51PMFriday, October 23, 2015
The SCFD board of directors Thursday took a step toward ending the debate over how public arts funding should be distributed in the region Thursday, reaffirming a plan it previously approved…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:53AMWednesday, August 19, 2015
There are only two bits of good advice you need in regard to Nathan Hall's "Ghost Light" currently playing at Boettcher Concert Hall.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:03AMThursday, August 6, 2015
For a quarter century, there have been two distinct — and separate — fine arts scenes in Colorado.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:01AMTuesday, August 4, 2015
The musical adaptation of "Cold Mountain" arrived at the Santa Fe Opera Saturday night with all of the expectations a very good idea provokes.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:52PMSunday, July 26, 2015
What every great soprano needs most is infrastructure. No Brünnhilde hits her high notes without the serious support system that got her up there: the vocal coaches and wigmakers; the …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:37PMThursday, July 16, 2015
The classical arts connect the dots for every culture. The great operas, symphonies, stories, plays and dances last beyond the eras of the artists who create them, crossing generations, con…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:50AMMonday, July 13, 2015
The classical arts connect the dots for every culture. The great operas, symphonies, stories, plays, dances - they last beyond the eras of the artists who create them, crossing generations,…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:13AMSunday, July 5, 2015
Another year, another strategy for the Central City Opera. At least that's how it can feel for the company's long-time patrons.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:00PMFriday, May 22, 2015
This offbeat evening offers some unusual pairings. The traditional Boulder Opera joins with the adventurous Opera on Tap for a program that combines Act I of Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte" and Ac…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:16AMSaturday, June 14, 2014
The Santa Fe Opera always lines up one can't-miss moment each summer, a promising premiere or an unlikely resurrection that folks here build their annual classical music pilgrimage around.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:52PMKen Cazan is having what you might fairly call his schizophrenic summer of 2014.In July, he directs Central City Opera's dark execution saga "Dead Man Walking.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:51PMWednesday, March 19, 2014
As a bit of American musical theater, "Chicago" gets away with murder. Not just because its main character, the narcissist with moxie named Roxie Hart, is acquitted for a killing she clearly
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:45PMFriday, March 14, 2014
There's a good measure of risk in nearly every event in the Newman Center Presents series.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:16PMTuesday, February 18, 2014
There's plenty of blame to go around for the unfortunate problems of "Cinderella" and it has nothing to do with the cycle of family abuse the lead character is caught up in or the fact that
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:29PM 
