With its formal dress, foreign languages and shouts of bravo, attending the opera can seem a bit daunting to the outsider. But it doesn’t have to be. If your closest brush with the art form is Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd in “What’s Opera, Doc?” here’s a quick, dirty and...
If you’ve been hesitant to give Lyric Opera Baltimore any attention (and from the empty seats Friday night, I’d say that means a whole lot of you), the company’s season-ending presentation of Gounod’s “Romeo et Juliette” ought to...
The Baltimore Sun When it comes to tragedy, it’s still hard to beat the one about “a pair of star-crossed lovers” named Romeo and Juliet, who defy their feuding families and are denied happiness by a dreadful series of circumstances. If there’s...
DC Metro Theatre Arts How should we deal with the storms of life? Should we go through life content and yet oblivious to the suffering of ourselves and others? Or, do we allow ourselves psychic disturbance over the plight of the world? Should we play the role of...
Communities Digital News The Virginia Opera’s wonderful, grand opera-era production of French composer Charles Gounod’s somewhat neglected 1867 classic, “Roméo et Juliette,” ended its statewide run at Richmond’s Carpenter Center this past weekend. Based, with...
Opera, like theater, is often overlooked among audiences in today’s culture as boring, long and incomprehensible. With the popularity of film, television and video games, it is more important than ever to choose a piece that audiences can connect with. PHOTO BY...
