Vivacious performances outweigh a host of odd directorial choices in the Washington National Opera‘s
West Side Story
parterre box looks forward to the official start of summer tomorrow with a wistfully pointed performance of Samuel Barber‘s “Knoxville: Summer of 1915” by soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha
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