VIENNA, Virginia, February 15, 2019. In their first-ever collaboration, the Washington Concert Opera (WCO) and the Wolf Trap Opera (WTO) combined forces at Wolf Trap’s Barns last weekend to present Swiss composer Frank Martin’s Le vin herbé. Rarely-heard in the US, and possibly performed for the first time in this area, this modernist gem of ...
Win tickets to Andrea Bocelli live at Verizon Center, Washington, DC on Sunday, December 13, 2015
WASHINGTON, April 5, 2015 – With all the cold weather we’ve been experiencing in the D.C. Metro area lately, one could be forgiven for thinking that spring or even summer will never come. Fortunately, the seasons do arrive even if the weather does not. And the arrival of summer, in particular, means that music and ...
WASHINGTON, February 17, 2014 – In a most unusual pairing of most unusual one-act operas, “The Met in HD” simulcast its Valentine weekend double bill of Tchaikovsky’s “Iolanta” and Bartók’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” on February 14 to movie theaters across the country and across the world. The performances will be rebroadcast at most of these theaters ...
WASHINGTON, December 25, 2014 – The Washington National Opera’s still relatively new Christmas tradition—celebrating the holiday season annually with a children’s or family opera—may very well prove to be a durable one. Take, for example, the company’s production last weekend of Rachel Portman’s “The Little Prince” at the Kennedy Center. It ran with five performances ...
The New York Metropolitan Opera’s series of live, movie theater simulcast productions continued this month with a breathtaking, perhaps unsurpassable performance of Jules Massenet’s romantic but ultimately tragic “Werther.”
The popular tenor brings warmth to a sold our arena