31 stories by "Emily Cao"
'Tis the season for holiday cheer, laughter and heart-warming music, and there is no better place to find it all wrapped up together than at the NSO Pops' A Holiday Pops! concert. The first …
It may be a little known, but hardly surprising, fact that the works of William Shakespeare have inspired more music than any other work of literature perhaps except for the Bible. The Bard'…
Lights, music, and… magic! Last night the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra brought Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the first film of the beloved franchise, to the Strathmore stage in th…
In fact, a perfect opera! Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera dazzled the Kennedy Center's Opera House this Friday, bringing the beloved and longest running Broadway musical to th…
Motherhood is a difficult, complicated reality, whether it is as a new mother or comprehending your own mother. It is a special, and inexplicable relationship. Robin Neveu Brown and Kevin Al…
"The existential loss of adult everything." A succinct, comprehensive phrase that encapsulates the purpose, prose, and poetics of "75 Lezbos, 2 Trannies, 1 Pannie, Me & Me Too!", a one-w…
"The best laid plans of mice and men, often go awry." In this case, to the great enjoyment of all in the Washington National Opera's dazzling, fun production of Gioachino Rossini's Cinderell…
Last night at The Kennedy Center Concert Hall marked a special evening for all " conductor, players, and audience alike. The audience, foremost, was treated to the special talents of violin …
The Catholic University of America, Benjamin T. Rome School of Music had its opening night of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto this past Thursday night at the Hartke Theatre, in a wonderful …
Virtuosity of the highest caliber graced The Kennedy Center Concert Hall this past Saturday afternoon as renowned piano superstar Lang Lang returned to perform at the established Washington …
The Choral Arts Society of Washington brought forth a momentous occasion to The Kennedy Center Concert Hall on yesterday afternoon with their undertaking of Johann Sebastian Bach's legacy ma…
Last night the National Symphony Orchestra debuted its eighty-forth season in The Kennedy Center's Concert Hall, one of the most anticipated musical events of the year, with a delightful eve…
International guitarists Rodrigo y Gabriela greeted a jam-packed concert hall and lawn at Wolf Trap's Filene Center last night, in a full evening of raw instrumental talent and innovation. E…
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra graced the Strathmore Music Center on Saturday night with the final and closing performance of their 2013 " 2014 subscription season. It was a perfect culmin…
Be our guest, be our guest! After all, this is France and a dinner here is never second best! We couldn’t have said it better ourselves, Lumiere, and the sentiment is shared for the sh…
The Kennedy Center Concert Hall had its roof blown off last night in an explosion of sound, light, dance and sheer grooviness. The National Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Pops co…
The Little Theatre of Alexandria's latest production, Boeing Boeing, by French playwright Marc Camoletti with English translation by Beverley Cross, is marketed as "a non-stop comedy,"…
Brightness and color abounded in the Kennedy Center Opera Hall on Saturday night as the Washington National Opera debuted its second-to-last show of the season: Mozart's The Magic Flute, in …
Things were very fiery this past Friday night at the GMU Center for the Arts as the Virginia Opera brings a new and exciting full-scale production of Bizet's Carmen, one of the most renowned…
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra with guest performer and conductor Itzhak Perlman graced the Strathmore concert hall last night, April 10, 2014, for an evening of mellifluous classical s…
Time for Three took to the Terrace Theater stage at The Kennedy Center on Monday night as part of the Fortas Chamber Music Concerts series. The internationally acclaimed, self-dubbed "classi…
William Shakespeare, the behemoth of the literary world. Twelve Dramas, sixteen Comedies, ten Histories " a total of thirty-seven full-length plays. Is it possible to touch on all of them in…
The Washington Chorus opened its 53rd season with heavy fare in Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, celebrating the British composer's 100th Anniversary and showcasing the talents of the c…
The National Symphony Orchestra continues it's eighty-third season at The Kennedy Center with a splendid evening of twentieth-century compositions as talented guest conductor Kristjan Järvi…
Shakespeare's iconic star-crossed lovers certainly need no introduction… but Folger Theatre's energetic interpretation of Romeo and Juliet may indeed herald some much-deserved praise. Dire…