Search

Saengerrunde Hall's new series turns classical music's "Three Bs" into brezels, bier, and bowling

A rollicking tone made this choral salute to opera's greatest hits an entertaining evening

The 2012 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

A new opera for the Butlers and a big art prize for Beili Liu

Austin Lyric Opera can't help but sing about 10 years of music instruction

The chaotic and beautiful birth of the Austin Music Awards

A dozen culture providers have been very nice, according to the NEA

A natural and believable cast makes Puccini's enduring romance captivating yet again

This Ellington opus may not look much like opera, but it sure swings like the Duke

A week of celebration for the great mezzo where her career was launched against all odds

Major personnel changes across the Austin arts scene signal the start of a new era

The Threepenny Opera, the deliciously caustic musical by Brecht and Weill, has been reinterpreted by Austin Playhouse, with unfortunate results, as a kind of broad slapstick

The Austin Critics Table has named the fifth group of individuals to be inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

Balls to the walls, baby. This week in Fashion is balls to the walls.

On the centenary of Dmitri Shostakovich's birth, Austin arts groups join forces to throw the Russian composer a yearlong party

Austin Lyric Opera's 'Il Trovatore' featured voices in good form, from the leads to the chorus, but the relationships among the characters was clearly missing

The full list of nominations for the 2003-2004 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

Students and colleagues sing in tribute to the late Martha Deatherage

Austin Lyric Opera's new artistic director receives raves for his conducting at Seattle Opera, Beehive diva Judy Arnold takes ill, and Chronicle Arts writer Barry Pineo gets a publishing deal for his book on acting.

The 21-century fusion palette of Shen Wei Dance Arts spans countries and centuries, from traditional Chinese opera and Tibetan Buddhist chants to modern Japanese Butoh and 16th-century English music.

A weekly rundown of the latest news in Austin's visual and performing arts scene

With Rigoletto , Austin Lyric Opera once again executes in bold strokes a classic opera in the vaulting openness of the City Coliseum, with director Joseph McClain again showing a flair for the theatrical and finding a degree of intimacy in that vast space.

In Austin Lyric Opera's production of the opera A Streetcar Named Desire, director Brad Dalton and his design team translate the unsettled mental state of Blanche Dubois into literal elements of the setting, creating a distorted, exaggerated, haunted work.

Musicalia at the SXSW Film Festival

Robi Polgar examines the Austin Lyric Opera production of Mozart's Don Giovanni.

In Memoriam

Getting Online With Art

In Memory of Michel