Kate Lindsey Is WCO’s Sapho
• November 15, 2018

Washington Concert Opera will present French composer Charles Gounod’s 1851 opera “Sapho” on Sunday, Nov. 18, in Lisner Auditorium.

Master of His Universe, Stan Lee —1922-2018
• November 13, 2018

Stan Lee is dead. Not so the Marvel Universe he created. That, in all of its ubiquitous forms, will be around just about forever, and not just on earth. Somewhere […]

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.  

A Not So Surprising Election Outcome Sets Us Up for 2020
• November 7, 2018

It’s over. The hurricane midterm—once in a different political landscape predicted to take on the proportions of a blue wave—has come if not entirely gone. The election—at times feared or […]

‘Anastasia’ Is a Romanov Roller Coaster
• November 5, 2018

This production, which runs through Nov. 25 in the Kennedy Center Opera House, is the musical very loosely based on the 1997 Disney animated cartoon.

Evil Act at the Tree of Life: Remember These Names
• October 28, 2018

The Oct. 27 attack in Pittsburgh, which shook and shocked the nation, took place in a national political atmosphere already rife and ripe with hostility, violent riffs, debates, rallies and incidents.

At Atlas: Rebecca Magnuson’s ‘She Sings’
• October 24, 2018

The one-woman show by the singer-songwriter and former Georgetown resident will be performed Friday, Nov. 16, at the Atlas Performing Arts Center. Ten percent of the proceeds will go to Knock Out Abuse.

At-Large Council Race Brings Drama to Midterms
• October 22, 2018

The opposition to incumbent Elissa Silverman has been recently led by the mayor, who’s been highly vocal and emphatic in her support for Dionne Reeder.

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 […]