By Joan Reinthaler February 14 at 2:19 PM The Virginia Opera brought Charles Gounod’s “Romeo and Juliet” to the George Mason University’s Center for the Arts this past weekend just in time for Valentine’s Day, and if the “eternal” in the Valentine promise of eternal...
DC Metro Theatre Arts Few stories have been as revised, re-told and reconstructed as Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. But a rendition that is not as performed as it should be is the 19th century opera by French Romantic composer Charles Gounod. Luckily for local...
La Bohème FAIRFAX, VA Virginia Opera 11/14/15 VIRGINIA OPERA’S NOVEMBER 14 performance of La Bohème at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts—dedicated to the memory of victims of the terror attacks that had occurred the night before in Paris—could not...
February 11, 2016 at 3:50 pm EST | by Joey DiGuglielmo Andrew McLaughlin is thriving in his field of opera. “I am fascinated by opera’s ability to synthesize so many art forms,” says the Canton, Pa., native. “By integrating singing with theater, dance and symphony,...
February 10 THURSDAY, FEB. 11 Parkinson aquatic exercise classes For people living with the disease. Thursdays and Tuesdays at 10-11 a.m. Woodlands Retirement Community, 4320 Forest Hill Dr., Fairfax. Sonia Grow , 703-378-7221. FlamingosInTraining.com. Registration...
April Phillips Correspondent Perhaps no love story has so captured the hearts of young and old across centuries like that of Romeo and Juliet. Since Shakespeare’s play was published in 1597, it has been read, performed, adapted, and, in some cases, shamelessly copied....
