Lead balloon
At Wolf Trap Opera, a season-closing Tosca is weighed down by an incoherent setting during Italy’s Anni di piombo.
Lawrence E. Moten III
5 pieces since 2023 — at 3 companies, most often at Wolf Trap Opera.
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Tabor-ing under no illusions
A grandly sung revival of The Ballad of Baby Doe at Central City Opera mines poignance from America’s past and present.
Rags to riches
In its first production since departing the Kennedy Center, the Washington National Opera presents a new adaptation of “King of Ragtime” Scott Joplin’s opera Treemonisha.
Cross my heart and hope to die
Wolf Trap Opera’s stirring production of Dialogues des Carmélites was a welcome respite from a brutally hot and humid DC summer.
Nighthawks
Edward Hopper’s paintings from the 1930s and 1940s are simply lousy with windows.
I’ll take the fall
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).