Young Opera Singers at Holy Trinity, July 9
• July 2, 2025

Every year, in late spring, more than 30 young opera singers converge on Vienna — the one in Virginia — to train at the national park for the performing arts […]

Wolf Trap Opera: Something Old, Something New(ish)
• July 18, 2024

Attention: Lovers of “La bohème”! Tomorrow, Friday, July 19, is your sole chance to catch Wolf Trap Opera’s production of Puccini’s heartstring-puller, in which impoverished bohemians in 19th-century Paris sing […]

Weekend Round Up July 25, 2019
• July 25, 2019

On Friday and Saturday, you can preview Spring/Summer 2020 fashions at DC Swim Week at the Italian Embassy. And Sunday is your last chance to get unhinged at Capital Fringe.

Summer Arts Preview: Performance
• May 16, 2019

Highlights of the summer season in theater, opera, music and dance, along with the harder-to-classify By The People and Capital Fringe Festivals.

Vibrant Summer Season Ahead at Wolf Trap
• April 25, 2019

Where Catherine Filene Shouse grew crops and bred horses and dogs — also hosting Washington’s political, business and social elite — stars from Herbie Hancock to UB40 will perform this […]

THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN: GLUCK’S MERLIN’S ISLAND and ULLMANN’S THE EMPEROR OF ATLANTIS
• February 18, 2019

Merlin’s Island: Gluck’s clever opera is a light-hearted parody that takes nothing seriously. The Emperor of Atlantis: Death decides to teach mankind a lesson in this powerfully dramatic work. MERLIN’S […]

THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN: GLUCK’S MERLIN’S ISLAND and ULLMANN’S THE EMPEROR OF ATLANTIS
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Merlin’s Island: Gluck’s clever opera is a light-hearted parody that takes nothing seriously. The Emperor of Atlantis: Death decides to teach mankind a lesson in this powerfully dramatic work. MERLIN’S […]

THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN: GLUCK’S MERLIN’S ISLAND and ULLMANN’S THE EMPEROR OF ATLANTIS
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Merlin’s Island: Gluck’s clever opera is a light-hearted parody that takes nothing seriously. The Emperor of Atlantis: Death decides to teach mankind a lesson in this powerfully dramatic work. MERLIN’S […]

THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN: GLUCK’S MERLIN’S ISLAND and ULLMANN’S THE EMPEROR OF ATLANTIS
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Merlin’s Island: Gluck’s clever opera is a light-hearted parody that takes nothing seriously. The Emperor of Atlantis: Death decides to teach mankind a lesson in this powerfully dramatic work. MERLIN’S […]

STRAUSS – ARIADNE AUF NAXOS
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The best laid plans often go awry… Strauss’ soaring opera is divinely comical and deeply enchanting. ARIADNE AUF NAXOS: Music by Richard Strauss Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal A New […]