Opera
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Strange Magic: Alcina at the Washington National Opera (Review)
Washington National Opera's "Alcina" showcases baroque music with a contemporary soul.
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Review: Washington National Opera’s “Aida”
Aida's confusing staging is offset by powerful sopranos and grand production
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Review: Washington National Opera’s “Madame Butterfly”
WNO's "Madame Butterfly" blends beautiful opera with an overwhelming art concept
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UrbanArias: Lucy the chimpanzee’s tale retold in short opera
Based on the real-life social experiment of a chimp raised as if she was a human child
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WNO’s Champion is a knockout (Review)
Terence Blanchard's jazz opera Champion comes out swinging and delivers some powerful punches
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Washington National Opera’s “Dead Man Walking” (review): Original, beautiful and compelling
The Washington National Opera's Dead Man Walking is what modern opera should be
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WNO’s “The Daughter of the Regiment”: Much needed respite from tumultuous times
The Daughter of the Regiment offers much-needed respite from tumultuous times
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WNO’s “The Marriage of Figaro” (review)
Rocking no boats, WNO's "The Marriage of Figaro" is all about the music, the voices and the traditional
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Michele Angelini loves opera — and thinks everyone else should, too
Michele Angelini grew up appreciating opera's beauty and melodrama
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Lone Opera: “Fidelio” at Atlas
Nick Olcott brings Fidelio, Beethoven's only opera, to the InSeries at Atlas
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Ringing the Changes: WNO’s Siegfried and Twilight of the Gods
"Siegfried" and "Twilight of the Gods" offer visual, emotional and moral potency -- and a fist in the air for their female characters
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Ringing True: WNO’s Ring Cycle (review)
The first two operas in WNO's Ring Cycle are powerfully sung, brilliantly staged, and stunningly executed
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Operatic: Tenor Randall Bills to perform with Washington Concert Opera
Randall Bills' singing career has its roots in musical theater
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Naked and Afraid: Yael Farber’s “Salomé” (review)
The Shakespeare Theatre Company's Salomé is a challenge on several fronts, but it's one you consider accepting
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Grand Transformations: “As One” at UrbanArias
As One explores a contemporary inner struggle in a classical medium
