Austin Opera’s moving production of Fiddler on the Roof grounds itself in lived tradition, to great effect.
Austin Opera’s 2024 production of The Manchurian Candidate proved to be a daring and timely commentary on political power in America, shortly after the 2024 election, just as it had been before the 2016 election.
The Manchurian Candidate is indeed operatic: outsized characters, a doomed love story and a narrative fraught with suspense.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
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