By Rich Griset Ron Daniels has a unique connection with the musical “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”: It probably wouldn’t exist without him. More than 40 years ago, it was Daniels who found the old penny dreadful tale and decided to turn it into a...
Stephen Sondheim said of Sweeney Todd, “If you do it in a theatre, it’s a musical. If you do it in an opera house, it’s an opera.” Presented Sept. 26 at the Harrison Opera House as Virginia Opera’s 40th season opener, Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street,...
By Mal Vincent An opera opening in Norfolk is a life-affirming experience – celebratory. Even routinely, it’s about as close as the arts get to an event that mixes real pearls with dipped pearls. “Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street”...
By Teresa Annas NORFOLK Ron Daniels looked almost parental last week as he worked through some scenes from Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd.” The director stood in Virginia Opera’s rehearsal hall, low-key and inconspicuous in his black slacks...
Posted by Mike Paarlberg on Apr. 12, 2014 at 3:31 pm Louis C.K. has a bit in which he notes how incredible it is that women continue to go out with men, given that the number one threat to women, and chief cause of injury and mayhem to them is, well, men. The number...
