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The Sound Bridge Project's 'Bach Is for Lovers'
March 31, 2013. 17 photos.
"...One Ounce Opera's Ann Sauder belts it out at the Sound Bridge..."

April 1, 2013 Photo Gallery

Texas Young Composers Concert
For the third time, the Austin Symphony gives Texas composers under 18 a chance to be heard
"...she goes to many performances. (About the Austin Lyric Opera performance of The Marriage of Figaro last month, she..."

March 29, 2013 Arts Feature by Natalie Zeldin

Queer Culture From the 1970s to 70
Three documentaries highlight a generation of gay icons
"...Manilow, the New York Dolls, and even a Metropolitan Opera diva. Frankie Knuckles, aka the Godfather of House Music,..."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Andy Campbell

Stronger With Each Tear: Mary J. Blige
Soul queen slays the Moody Theater
"...not one but two Plácido Domingo shows – an opera, and a four-hour concert (plus a rehearsal) – what..."

March 1, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Setting the Stage
Austin's art scene spent 2012 prepping for the big things to come
"...organizations with new leaders at their helms (Austin Lyric Opera, AMOA-Arthouse, classical radio station KMFA, and Scottish Rite Theater);..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 Ensembles of 2012
The year's most memorable groupings in classical music, dance, and theatre
"...6) THE COMPANY OF 'TURANDOT' (Austin Lyric Opera) It brimmed with talented performers of all ages...."

Jan. 4, 2013 Arts Feature by Adam Roberts

Playback: Coolest Board in Town
Arlyn Studios just upped its ante
"...of the building that used to be the Austin Opera House, a concert hall and outlaw country headquarters that..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson is back with another delightful movie about beautiful dreamers and full-time schemers.
"...kind of ticking clock that mirrors Britten's Noah's Ark opera, which plays throughout, alongside so-lonesome Hank Williams, a Françoise..."

June 8, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

2012 Austin Critics Table Awards
Giving a lot of sweet bouquets (and taking their sweet time doing it)
"...Opera..."

June 8, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

First Position
This lovely documentary follows six international ballet hopefuls, ages 10 to 17, as they compete for the Youth America Grand Prix.
"...and contracts to the American Ballet Theatre, the Paris Opera Ballet, and other top-tier dance outfits. A five-minute solo..."

May 25, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

John Carter
Old-school "Gosh, wow!" sense-of-wonder filmmaking is in short supply these days, but now John Carter has arrived to fill the void.
"...is in many ways similar, although this swashbuckling space opera by Burroughs (who would later go on to create..."

March 9, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lucia di Lammermoor
Lyubov Petrova powers this Lucia with vocal fireworks and nuanced acting
"...LammermoorDell Hall at the Long Center, 701 W. Riverside www.austinlyricopera.org Through Feb. 5 Running time: 3 hr...."

Feb. 3, 2012 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

The Iron Lady
Meryl Streep reunites with her Mama Mia! director to play Margaret Thatcher.
"...spy games and the Suez Crisis fell away to soap-opera staples; more apropos exit music for the final episode..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Top 10 Notable Theatrics of 2011
Recalling how scoundrels, amphibians, and grace brightened Austin stages in 2011
"...5) 'THE MAGIC FLUTE' (Austin Lyric Opera) Beleaguered though it's been of late, ALO managed to..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Arts Feature by Adam Roberts

Sarah Silver Hands
The magic in this new fairy-tale opera lies in its look more than its story
"...tip of the plot iceberg that ultimately sinks the opera. And the fact that Sarah Silver Hands is an..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

Margaret
A tangled post-production history kept this Kenneth Lonergan film from completion for six years, and its story about teenage trauma suffers as a result. But, oh, what a cast.
"...are numerous tangential scenes, including a couple at the opera during which we get to hear several minutes of..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

All Over Creation: Classical Alchemy
How Austin is transmuting the music of old into dance, art, and comedy
"...Austin, rewriting it as The Bat for Austin Lyric Opera. Their musical shenanigans are of the highest comic order..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Arts Column by Robert Faires

'Rappahannock County'
A new song cycle views the Civil War from one small corner of Virginia
"...greeted Gordon's other recent foray into America's past, an opera based on John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, this..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Texas Performing Arts
A major grant lets UT's arts presenter boost the profile of classical music
"...each of the next three years, ranging from theatre-baroque opera mash-up The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer,..."

July 1, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Art To Enchant
The winners of the 2010-11 Austin Critics Table Awards
"...Renaissance & Response: Polyphony Then and Now, Conspirare Opera..."

June 10, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two: The Suburbs
Growing up with Phoebe Snow, whose presence and music transcended the ordinary
"...time. She always took voice lessons and later added opera training. One time in New York City, I was..."

May 6, 2011 Column by Louis Black

Topsy-Turvy
Notes on an Englishman
"...Sullivan's comic masterwork, fittingly performed by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, the namesake troupe of the pair's most devoted..."

April 1, 2011 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones

Barney's Version
Paul Giamatti won a Golden Globe for his performance as Barney Panofsky in this film based on Mordecai Richler's 1997 novel.
"...Although he’s a big-time producer of a Montreal soap opera, Barney is by no means rolling in Canadian dollars,..."

March 4, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

TV Eye: Crazy for Cop Shows
Cracking The Chicago Code
"...9pm on PBS. The life and career of international opera star Barbara Smith Conrad is revealed in this new..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Rent
A Broadway-quality staging of the popular rock musical with energy to spare
"...this hugely popular Jonathan Larson musical inspired by Puccini's opera La Bohème, but instead of a group of starving..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Shakespeare Around Austin
Productions this fall show us there's no limit to how the Bard's plays get done
"...at least. Spinning off the recent success of filmed opera productions in cinemas, Opus Arte, a production arm of..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Horse Opera
Country Mile
"...Horse OperaSounds of the Desert..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Hell on Wheels ... and Weed
Bob Ray takes the show on the road
"...director of the legendary stonercore, '99 Austin snapshot Rock Opera and the ferociously entertaining Roller Derby doc Hell on..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Yeomen of the Guard
This more serious work from Gilbert & Sullivan still offers lots of escapist fun
"...score to the performance of this less frequently staged opera and people who simply enjoy grand music with a..."

June 18, 2010 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Culture Class
The 2009-2010 Austin Critics Table Awards
"...to Common Things, Conspirare Symphonic Choir with Austin Symphony Opera..."

June 11, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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