Arts
Jazz Icon Monty Alexander Ushers in the New Year at Blues Alley
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.
PostClassical Celebrates Walt Whitman
• November 12, 2018
The musical portion of the program reinforced the evening’s topics — all seeming to converge on the eve of the midterm elections — of immigration, voting, war and America’s essential nature.
A Timely Opening for ‘Silent Night’
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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.
Weekend Round Up November 8, 2018
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This weekend’s musical options include Duke Ellington School vocal ensembles, John Lloyd Young, Chris Botti, the City Choir and Trio Karénine.
LAST CHANCE: Thursday’s Breakfast With Revels Heads
• November 6, 2018
Washington Revels Artistic Director Roberta Gasbarre and Executive Director Greg Lewis will speak at the George Town Club on Nov. 8. RSVP to richard@georgetowner.com.
‘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.
Dancers Brings NPG’s ‘Silhouettes’ to Life (photos)
• November 4, 2018
Inspired by the exhibition “Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now,” the dance company of Dana Tai Soon Burgess premiered a modern dance work called “Silhouettes” on Oct. 27 and 30.
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.
Weekend Round Up October 18, 2018
• October 18, 2018
Sunday is performance-packed, with appearances by the Handel and Haydn Society, the Cathedral Choral Society under Leonard Slatkin, “Sholom Aleichem” and Eve Ensler and Anne Lamott.
