4 pieces since 2016 — at 3 companies, most often at Washington National Opera.
Our critics assess Kansas’s own Ben Bliss in a (nearly) all-American program performed at the Park Avenue Armory and Vocal Arts DC.
Concerts at Wolf Trap, mixed bags in more ways than one, provided fleeting glimpses of the old normal as moments of frisson mingled with more familiar monotony.
Sunday’s “Rising Stars in Concert”, featuring the Ryan Opera Center ensemble and members of the Lyric Opera Orchestra, was a stirring and entertainingly musical afternoon.
Soprano Patricia Racette is superb in La Voix Humaine, a work that she makes absolutely her own.
Washington National Opera offered a shellshocked D.C. some much-needed diversion Saturday night, with a new production of La Fille du Regiment.
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).
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