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Proposed Development Would Revive Austin Opera House but Faces Neighbor Opposition
200 Academy Drive: Big hit or last call?
"...soon know: Is it showtime for a new Austin Opera House, or is it last call for live music..."

Jan. 21, 2022 News Feature by Kevin Curtin

Austin Lyric Opera: 'Carmen' glee-a
ALO makes its long-awaited move into the Long Center with opera's favorite libertine
"...nowhere is this more evident than at Austin Lyric Opera. A new, hip logo and an impressive new website..."

April 18, 2008 Arts Feature by Michael Kellerman

Austin Lyric Opera: Fat lady sings for artistic/managing director split
Austin Lyric Opera Artistic Director Richard Buckley and Managing Director Tamara Hale are both leaving their posts in June 2007, after which ALO will return to a single general director running the show
"...weeks of 2006 signaled big changes for Austin Lyric Opera in the coming year. On Dec. 12, Richard Buckley..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Opera’s Ariadne auf Naxos
Dude ranch antics make this reimagining of Strauss too busy, but when the music takes center stage, it’s gorgeous
"...The desire to liberate operas from their traditional settings to modern-day milieus can yield..."

Feb. 2, 2018 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Austin's One Ounce Opera vs. Nickelback
Almost literally. And that's just part of this event.
"...exactly what the members of Austin's acclaimed One Ounce Opera will be trying to do this Sunday afternoon, Oct...."

Sept. 29, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Lyric Opera
ALO is selling its headquarters and losing its community music school
"...move to address its seven-figure financial crisis, Austin Lyric Opera has opted to sell its headquarters on Barton Springs..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Lyric Opera
Austin Lyric Opera announces what's coming when it turns 20 next season and serves up a banquet of opera on celluloid in a party, titled Lights, Camera, Opera
"...Next season Austin Lyric Opera turns 20 – my, time flies when you're having..."

March 24, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

One Ounce Opera Highlights the (Death-Obsessed) Work of Four Women Composers and Librettists
Micro-operas were the order of the day at the company's annual Fresh Squeezed showcase
"..."We've created this network," says One Ounce Opera's Julie Fiore, speaking of the way she and her..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Review: Austin Opera’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sharp Sondheim staging could benefit from some musical raggedness
"...F2-Gb4 bass, flamboyant B2-C5 tenor, and sprightly Bb3-A5 soprano, operatic stagings seemed inevitable...."

Feb. 1, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

How Local Opera Company LOLA Made the Play Lardo Weeping Sing
Peter Stopschinski’s 17-year journey to bring Terry Galloway’s outsized, outspoken agoraphobe to the stage
"...a fat lady like none you've seen hits the operatic stage, thanks to Austin company LOLA...."

March 8, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Lyric Opera
With the sale of the Heller Opera Center, ALO is back in the black
"...For Austin Lyric Opera, most of 2011 was as gloomy as a Wagnerian..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Lyric Opera
A local operatic production gets a trip to the ball: a showing on public television
"...of changes, try this on for size: Austin Lyric Opera will have one of its productions on television this..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Opera Fights, Puppet Plays, and More Arty Events
Get an arts fix this week
"...Wave?   – James Scott Fresh Squeezed Ounce of Opera..."

March 1, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Austin Opera's Silent Night
This production of the Pulitzer Prize winner powerfully creates the tension of the battlefield and just as powerfully lets it go
"...For an opera inspired by the 1914 Christmas Truce, wherein soldiers on..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Arts Review by Trey Gutierrez

Faster Than Sound: Neighbors Push to Limit Size of Austin Opera House Project
Traffic concerns clash with midsize venue vision at 200 Academy Dr. development
"...point. The development hopes to revive the former Austin Opera House club off South Congress. While the owners imagine..."

April 29, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Austin Opera's La Bohème
The beauty of the music and stagecraft in this production teaches us something about love and art
"...Thanos' dismembered universe, how about a night at the opera?..."

May 3, 2019 Arts Review by Laura Jones

Austin Opera's The Daughter of the Regiment
Just as the young woman of the title is deemed "charming," so too is Donizetti's work in this company's staging
"...is with the 21st Regiment. And yet, this charming opera offers an even brighter touch: a young woman, Marie,..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Who's Working on a Dubstep Opera?
Could be any number of people in Austin
"...as an actual production, this idea of a dubstep opera with the whole spectacle featuring music somewhere along these..."

Aug. 15, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Lyric Opera
ALO finds its new general director at the Metropolian Opera
"...to coast for a new general director, Austin Lyric Opera finally found its top man at the top of..."

March 2, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Night at the Opera
Opera for dummies: Name one male tenor
"...across the street from the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, lit its dome orange...."

May 27, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Austin Lyric Opera: Breaking Glass
For Austin Lyric Opera's 20th season, artistic director Richard Buckley has lined up the American premiere of Philip Glass' opera 'Waiting for the Barbarians'
"...After launching his tenure at Austin Lyric Opera with a few seasons of Old World standbys, new..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Phantom of the Opera at Bass Concert Hall
This new touring production makes a grandly restaged, compelling tale of thin source material, with a chandelier drop that still thrills
"...you see Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera. It's the chandelier crash with the big organ number...."

April 28, 2017 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Ethos' Atlantis: A Puppet Opera
This new musical take on the fall of Atlantis pulls us into an ancient place, powered by myth and ritual
"...So it goes in Atlantis: A Puppet Opera, the latest musical creation from Ethos, the company that..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

At the Statue of Venus/Three Decembers
The Butler Opera Center's pairing of these Jake Heggie chamber operas opened up small concerns to an enduring sense of love
"...Don Giovanni – or the protagonists of Jake Heggie's operas Dead Man Walking and Moby-Dick, for that matter –..."

March 11, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Austin Lyric Opera
Despite its seven-figure debt, the opera lives to sing another day
"...of its big 25th anniversary season, the Austin Lyric Opera looked like it was facing its own Götterdämmerung. A..."

June 24, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Lyric Opera Makes History With Tannhäuser Our First Wagner
"...big. This Tannhäuser being produced by the Austin Lyric Opera January 12-14 at Bass Concert Hall, is no run-of-the-mill..."

Jan. 12, 1996 Arts Feature

Queer Collaboration Yields Otherworldly Campiness in p1nky and The Kwane: Another Soup Opera!
Genres collide in cartoon-inspired DIY musical
"...winning recipe for p1nky and The Kwane: Another Soup Opera!, a campy queer musical opening its weekend-long debut run..."

May 29, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Mac Irvine

Butler Opera Center's Così fan tutte
This production brings Mozart's test of female fidelity into the modern world of Tinder and high finance
"...please powerful men is and has ever been. Mozart's opera Così fan tutte, first performed in 1790 – the..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Aida
In Verdi's Egyptian tragedy, Austin Opera excavates from the pomp and pageantry the personal
"...as imagined by Giuseppe Verdi and presented by Austin Opera in its latest staging of Aida. Oh, the positions..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Arts Review by Robert Faires

One Ounce Opera's There's Beauty in the Beast
The new operetta by Esther's Follies veterans Michael Nesline and Steve Saugey played Frankenstein for laughs but also found its heart
"...and one in particular: the Bugs-and-Elmer Wagnerian spoof, "What's Opera, Doc?"..."

Nov. 6, 2015 Arts Review by Robert Faires

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