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Five Things to Experience at Fusebox Festival
The return of the avant garde and experimental drama and artextravaganza
"...Sure, Austin Opera will be presenting their own full production of Beethoven's..."

April 8, 2022 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

2021 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation
The also-rans are as good as this year's animated nominees
"...a children's illustrated book: In stark contrast, Erick Oh's "Opera" is a remarkable feat, an ornate visual feast that..."

April 2, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

How to Celebrate Austin Museum Day 2020
In person and virtual events abound on the city' annual free museum day
"...feature a variety of materials and styles. landmarks.utexas.edu Millett’s Opera House..."

Sept. 15, 2020 Arts Post

Composer Nathan Felix Transitions to Video During Quarantine
Short, simple films of mundane tasks analyze human condition
"...Prior to that experience, the now opera composer and experimental director disdained the music he currently..."

July 17, 2020 Music Post by Nataleah Small

Robert Faires' Top 10 Joys in Dance and Classical in 2019
It was a year in which the bold and the beautiful made strong impressions in dance and music
"...1) SILENT NIGHT (Austin Opera) This rich staging of the Puts/Campbell Pulitzer winner about..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Terrence McNally on Art and Commerce
The Tony-winning playwright talks about the business of show
"...was either on Broadway; Off Broadway; at the Metropolitan Opera; Philharmonic Hall; City Ballet, where Balanchine ballets had their..."

June 6, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Nominees for the 2018-19 Austin Critics Table Awards Announced
The Critics Table's picture-perfect year
"...Concert/Opera Hope of Loving, Conspirare I, Too, Sing America, Inversion..."

May 13, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Review: Otello
Austin Opera staged a victory worthy of the Lion of Venice
"...To have witnessed that moment in Austin Opera’s just-closed concert staging of Giuseppe Verdi’s grand tragedy was..."

Nov. 20, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Fast Forward Austin Does Compute
New-music champions science the shit out of its upcoming concert with The Difference Engine
"...7pm: One Ounce Opera Austin's purveyors of lo-fi, inventive opera perform DOOR, a..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Fast, Cheap, and in Control
Cost-of-living increases are making local artists do more with less
"...offer this season from the Rude Mechs and Local Opera, Local Artists? Or Revel Unclassified, a series of 22..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Politics Upstaged
This election year brings out the political in Austin's arts
"...such as women's health and open carry to an opera about a conspiracy to use brainwashed war heroes to..."

Sept. 13, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Star Turns
The nominees for the 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards
"...Opera Aida, Austin Opera At the Statue of Venus/Three Decembers,..."

May 9, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Not an Adaptation
"...as she writes. There's not a word of the opera's dialogue in the play, and the songs are used..."

Feb. 24, 2016 Postmarks

Active Listening
Dance artists Heloise Gold and Julie Nathanielsz, and a new 'Gold Show|Rose Show'
"..."We're singing a lot of mock opera. I'm going so far as making myself learn a..."

May 30, 2014 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Horse Opera
"...Horse Opera(Telewreck)..."

April 18, 2014 Music Review by Kevin Curtin

Tosca
Austin Lyric Opera brought all the power in Puccini's opera to bear in a staging that pitted heaven against hell
"...mighty were the forces at war in Austin Lyric Opera's recent production of Tosca that heaven and hell themselves..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Austin Critics Table Awards 2013
Arts writers raise their glasses to outstanding art in list of nominees
"...SoundSpace: Post-Classical, One Ounce Opera..."

May 24, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Method to Their Madness
Two leading ladies reflect on their psychotic characters' unique relationships with the score
"...Theatre's Next to Normal and Lucia in Austin Lyric Opera's Lucia di Lammermoor, respectively – have devoted significant watts..."

Jan. 27, 2012 Arts Feature by Adam Roberts

After a Fashion
A turn for the worse? Or a turn for the better? Resolve makes all the difference.
"...illustrious Thames & Hudson publishers: Fashion Designers at the Opera by Helena Matheopoulos is a deliriously lovely book detailing..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

What Is Important About Music?
"...Dear Editor, Robert Faires' piece on the Austin Lyric Opera finally shed some light on another great Austin institution..."

Aug. 28, 2011 Postmarks

Family Affair
Akina Adderley adds her name to the family ledger
"...later, Yale University. Always a strong vocalist, she studied opera and classical music...."

June 10, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Ojos Verdes
Plácido Domingo blows down San Antonio's AT&T Center
"...“A Night at the Opera” with Plácido Domingo is one thing – unamplified, primarily...."

June 3, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Threepenny Opera
Inventive direction and fun acting make a wonderful spectacle of Brecht's dark world
"...The Threepenny Opera..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Howdy, Pardner!
In 2010, the watchword among Austin creatives was 'collaboration'
"...a Dutch Grammy for its CD Requiem; UT's Butler Opera Center commissioning a new opera from Mexican composer Daniel..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Boxing Gym
Famed documentary maker Frederick Wiseman directs his camera on Richard Lord's Austin boxing gym.
"...far removed from his last, La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet: Both films fixate on the process – the..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

UT Jazz Orchestra with Carmen Bradford
"...presented a rare performance of Duke Ellington's comic folk opera, Queenie Pie. It was the first and only "official"..."

April 30, 2010 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Hansel and Gretel
Set in the Gilded Age, this operatic fairy tale really resonates with the present
"...would have likely been enough to make Austin Lyric Opera's production of Hansel and Gretel feel relevant to a..."

April 30, 2010 Arts Review by Robert Faires

L'Étoile (The Star)
You can thank your lucky stars for this opera of big, colorful, bouncy fun
"...time: 2 hr, 20 min, 701 W. Riverside, 472-5992, www.austinlyricopera.org..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Arts Review by Robert Faires

There Will Be Blood
... And bloodsuckers and zombies and ghosts and murderers all over our stages this week
"...Austin Playhouse's The Turn of the Screw and Bastrop Opera House's Murder by Poe craft theatrical thrills from classic..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Queenie Pie
A slice of UT's Duke Ellington opera “Queenie Pie”
"...Don’t let the word "opera" scare you. This is a musical. And don’t let..."

April 21, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

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