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Weekend Round Up January 31, 2019
• January 31, 2019
This weekend at the Kennedy Center, American Ballet Theatre is in town to perform “Harlequinade.” Friday is International Gruit Day, Saturday is Groundhog Day and you know what Sunday is.
Weekend Round Up January 10, 2019
• January 10, 2019
This Saturday, get an early start and you can watch birds at Hains Point, stand up for trees and take sides in “The Magic Duel.”
Weekend Round Up November 23, 2018
• November 23, 2018
This weekend, the National Symphony Orchestra will play along with clips from “Frozen” and other Disney Animation favorites.
Holiday Performing Arts Preview
• November 21, 2018
Not just a listing of holiday performances, this preview highlights holiday-time cultural events of all types, plus a couple picks as far away as February.
A Timely Opening for ‘Silent Night’
• November 12, 2018
The Pulitzer-winning opera has been repeatedly staged, but the timing injected something into the evening that took on the nature of an event.
Kevin Puts on His Pulitzer-Winning Opera: ‘Silent Night’
• November 8, 2018
In the opera, at the Kennedy Center from Nov. 10 to 25, the war-weary soldiers on the front declare an unofficial Christmas cease-fire to greet and mingle with their counterparts.
3 Sopranos, 3 Paths to Violetta of ‘La Traviata’
• October 15, 2018
Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi’s 1853 classic opera “La Traviata” goes way back in time. It’s one of the great operas in the repertoire, showing up repeatedly on the lists of […]
Washington National Opera’s ‘Traviata’
• October 11, 2018
As directed by WNO Artistic Director Francesca Zambello, and conducted at a sometimes frenetic pace by Renato Palumbo, this “Traviata,” running through Oct. 21, delivered the opera’s large store of riches.
Bernstein’s ‘Candide’ Is a Glorious Mess
• May 7, 2018
The genre-defying show — at turns defined as an American opera, an operetta and a musical — is now, as part of the Bernstein centennial, in the Kennedy Center Opera House through May 26.
An Entertaining ‘Barber’ from WNO
• May 1, 2018
Washington National Opera’s “Barber of Seville,” at the Kennedy Center through May 19, is beautifully performed by a cast packed with terrific singers, most notably Russian tenor Andrey Zhilikhovsky, as the Barber, aka Figaro,
