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Performance
in performance: eighth blackbird | 'Heart and Breath'
It all begins with the heartbeat. At least, eighth blackbird's recent performance at the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington D.C. on …
in performance: Washington National Opera "American Opera Initiative"
"Opera really only exists in the moment that it's being performed and opening night is like being shot out of a cannon," remarked American …
in performance: Daniel Felsenfeld's "She, After" at UrbanArias
When it comes to literary heroines, readers have a proprietary sense of the version they imagined. What happens to them after the last page …
in performance: Lyric Opera Baltimore's Passionate "Tosca"
Grand opera delights in the 'bigger is better' motto. However, often it is the attention to detail that really makes the work transcendent. …
in performance: Two Standout Debuts in Washington National's "Forza"
"For me, more important than any place we depict onstage is the fact that these characters are all displaced. The action ranges all over a …
in performance: New Music Supergroup "Mirage" at Atlas Performing Arts Center
Armando Bayolo, Curator - New Music Series, explained in his introduction that Mirage is a 'new music supergroup.' Featuring Lindsay …
In performance: This sweet little word "and" – Washington National Opera’s 'Tristan and Isolde'
It is not enough to write that Tristan und Isolde is a dramatization of Richard Wagner’s relationship with Mathilde Wesendonck; nor is it …
in performance: Resonant Bodies Festival Wows with Contemporary Vocal Works
Written by guest contributor, Danya Katok Armed with tuning forks, the ladies of Resonant Bodies’ second night of concerts won over the …