220 stories by "Sarah B. Roberts"
Photo Credit: Jennifer Broski
Last week, I attended the Collegiate Chorale's concert of The Mikado with Theatre Aficionado Kevin Daly. We had a most marvelous time. &…
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Last month when I was in San Antonio, I was shopping with my mother. She pointed out the new Bruce Springsteen album Wrecking Ball. As excited as I was to get the new …
Last night I had the pleasure of attending the live recording session for Patricia Racette's upcoming cabaret album.
Patricia Racette is a world-renowned operatic soprano, know…
Check your locals listings: Renée Fleming is singing at the Penthouse at Lincoln Center this Friday night, April 6th. It will be broadcast on Live from Lincoln Center on PBS.&nb…
This morning I received a message from my mother that my cousin Tina is being taken off life support at noon today. I can't even remember the last time I saw Tina, or even t…
"People are united in this tiny, few-block area," she says. "They're all theater rats, and they don't care about living well."
Candice Bergen, about falling in love with Broadway, to the I…
Had it really been eight years since I visited my former hometown of San Antonio, Texas? I'm not sure, but my Aunt Dale says so. Either way, it had been too long and …
Even though it was the end of a very busy period at my day job and the eve of an out-of-town trip for which I hadn't yet packed, I couldn't resist catching the first preview of The Best…
I already know that in seven months when I look back at all of the live performances I saw in 2012, Tina Howe's Painting Churches at the Keen Company will be at the top of my favorites …
The Mint Theater has mounted the 100th anniversary production of Githa Sowerby's Rutherford & Son. It is directed by Richard Corley and features Robert Hogan in the…
"You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas." Davy Crockett (And I'll be seeing Renée Fleming at the Majestic Theatre tonight - her debut in San Antonio - and cousins,…
Angela Lansbury is the subject of a V.F. Portrait in the April issue of Vanity Fair! Her Sweeney Todd (and often Murder, She Wrote) co-star Len Cariou pens the lovely portrait. T…
A week ago today, I was already in Baden-Baden, Germany ready for Renée Fleming's role debut in Ariadne auf Naxos. It was a weird production in which Renée was transcendant.&nb…
My nephew Cody, who is in 7th grade, is a member of the Greenwood Leadership Organization ("GLO"). His 6th grade colleagues created this video for the Project Outreach category for Destinati…
In January I had the opportunity to see Follies on Broadway three more times before it closed. Once was with Byrne of StageBuzz.com courtesy of Jesse at StageRush.com. &nbs…
Way back in 2008, we started hearing and then talking to Renée Fleming about the possibility that she would sing "Ariadne" in Strauss' Ariadne Auf Naxos.
Last year it was finally con…
Last month, Michael Cerveris performed at the Lincoln Center American Songbook series. Go read the review here at the NYTimes. Michael's evening was chockfull of music - Southe…
Sunday, January 15th, was one of the coldest days we've had in New York City in a long time (and subsequently hasn't been as cold since). I think the windchill was around 4 degrees far…
Ernani is one of the sillier Verdi operas, but the music is expectedly gorgeous. The production is typical grand opera - giant sets, a huge chorus and especially opulent cost…
Save for the peekaboo slit in the bodice of her dress, Susan Graham was dressed like a virginal angel for the first half of her Carnegie Hall concert on Wednesday night.
F…
It's Robbie Burns Day. I won't cook you a haggis, but I'll lift a glass to ye.
A Bottle and a Friend by Robert Burns
There's nane that's blest of human kind,
But the cheerful a…
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I couldn't wait to see The Enchanted Island at the Met Opera this season! But then I saw it. It's supposed to be a pastische of baroque music by Handel, Purcel, Vivaldi, Ra…
On Tuesday, we attended a master class given by Renée Fleming as part of Marilyn Horne's The Song Continues series at Carnegie Hall.
In about an hour and a half, Renée worked with four s…
