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The Pirates of Penzance
While the staging could use more swash with its buckle, this take on the G&S pirate musical succeeds where it must: with the music
"...sung, clearly over the music of the Gillman Light Opera Orchestra, conducted with dashing aplomb by Jeffrey Jones-Ragona, and..."

June 27, 2008 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

After a Fashion
Your gracious Style Avatar on throwing rocks and giving 'em 'the finger'
"...charming Kevin Patterson, general director of the Austin Lyric Opera, asking me to be a guest at the big..."

June 27, 2008 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Bat
ALO's hometown take on Die Fledermaus with wit, affection, enthusiasm, and style from all parties
"...involved in the production of The Bat, Austin Lyric Opera's resetting of Strauss' Die Fledermaus in our own hometown...."

June 6, 2008 Arts Review by Robert Faires

After a Fashion
Stephen finally gets to use the phrase "porn star and welfare-mother-turned-singer-and-social-activist" in a column
"...myself this Saturday, June 7, in the Austin Lyric Opera's production of The Bat, an Austin-centric version of Die..."

June 6, 2008 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Odetta Sings!
A blues legend shines on Austin
"...her career at age 13 with classical training in opera in the Los Angeles-based Turnabout Theater. Realizing that even..."

June 5, 2008 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Wasted Years
Iron Maiden
"...first two Maiden albums, featuring original vocalist/Phantom of the Opera Paul Di’Anno. “Wrathchild.”..."

May 19, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Fuse Box by Day
Schedule
"...Neal Medlyn's Lionel Richie Opera..."

April 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Counterfeiters
Winner of this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Film, this brisk Austrian film uncovers the moral choices faced by WWII concentration-camp victims selected to work on the Nazi effort to create bogus currency.
"...What we call the moral compass often fails to operate under conditions described as the fog of war. In..."

April 11, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

After a Fashion
Stephen rents a duster and gets down with the nouveaus and old-veaus in H-Town
"...nouveau and old-veau – to attend the Houston Grand Opera Imperial Ball. My friends Doug and Jennifer Bosch, owners..."

April 11, 2008 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar is still squinting from all that glare from all those rocks at the Long Center opening
"...is. He's another of Austin's treasures. The Austin Lyric Opera, under the artistic direction of the charming and affable..."

April 4, 2008 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Long Center for the Performing Arts: Opening the house before it opens
The long-awaited cultural facility throws wide its doors for four days of free performances and tours
"...Poetry Slam, Austin Shakespeare Festival, Refraction Arts, Austin Lyric Opera, Aztlan Dance Company, Teatro Vivo, Austin Classical Guitar Society,..."

March 7, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

After a Fashion
Stephen has a DIFFArent weekend in Dallas and wants to give Katie Holmes a glass of water
"...In the gallery connected with vintage clothing store the Opera House (2209-K S. First), there will be a presentation..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Rockeras
Mexico and Spain 'hablan' behind your back
"...Hong Kong Blood Opera Roca Classica..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Music Feature by Belinda Acosta

The Future Is Here
In 2007, that distant tomorrow when Austin's arts dreams would be realized finally arrived
"...Plays) and increasingly, on the global scene (Austin Lyric Opera staging the U.S. premiere of Philip Glass' new opera,..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Man With the Light Touch
Peter Bay leads the Austin Symphony with the finesse of Astaire
"...Orchestra, Austin Chamber Music Center, Ballet Austin, Austin Lyric Opera, high school orchestras, you name it; as he's met..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Symphony Orchestra: Commission fever
ASO has commissioned a new orchestral work from composer Christopher Theofanidis
"...is rolling out the powerful Verdi Requiem. Austin Lyric Opera is leading off with opera's bad girl, Carmen, then..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?
The creative powerhouse known as Tyler Perry is back in front of and behind the camera with this predictable film about four married couples.
"...In fact, there’s such an overriding sense of soap opera that I kept expecting a commercial break. The bad..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

The Gospel of Progress
Micah P. Hinson lands in Austin – hopefully not on his back
"...last fall's jestingly titled Micah P. Hinson and the Opera Circuit, an album that swoons under the weight of..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Sunshine
The sci-fi reunion of Danny Boyle and Cillian Murphy (28 Days Later) is never less than beautiful but has a profoundly implausible plot turn that cheapens the sentiment.
"...of eyeballs. (In Solaris, the granddaddy of philosophical space opera, it was ears.) Problems arise in the film’s third..."

July 27, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Forte at Forty
Thriving under Jack Allen's leadership, KMFA endures as Classically Austin radio
"...include the Austin Symphony Orchestra, Ballet Austin, Austin Lyric Opera, the Austin Civic Orchestra, Conspirare, the Texas Choral Consort,..."

July 6, 2007 Arts Feature by Katherine Gregor

Brass Ring Lessons
How TexARTS' first two go-rounds in staging classic musicals are helping to make its new Carousel ride a winner
"...the Mississippi had to be driven by a hidden operator. It was a bigger show than TexARTS needed for..."

June 22, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Avenue Montaigne
A young Frenchwoman moves to Paris from with nothing but the knapsack on her back and the innocent gleam in her eye.
"...her talents are going to waste on the soap opera that made her rich and famous. Classical pianist Jean-François..."

April 20, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Music Is Pretty Much Incessant
P. Kellach Waddle, the River City's 'educated hillbilly,' composes himself a life
"...history and bass composition and performance (with minors in opera history and cognitive linguistics), after a myriad of professional..."

April 20, 2007 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Puccini for Beginners
A lesbian on the rebound falls for both a guy and a gal in this rom-com with roots in old Hollywood screwball comedies.
"...have excelled, I think, in the role of the opera-loving, commitment-phobic Manhattanite Allegra, but Reaser pulls it off just..."

April 6, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar discovers Voxtrot
"...was over, I kicked into high gear with the Opera Ball, which I'd woefully neglected. During SXSW I'd receive..."

April 6, 2007 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

After a Fashion
This week, Stephen manages to connect Barbara K, the Shangri-Las, and Joey Buttafuoco. Go figure.
"...March 24, at the Renaissance Hotel, the Austin Lyric Opera Guild presents the Opera Ball 2007: Memoirs of a..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

After a Fashion
Stephen has to go all the way to Seattle and Tijuana just to appreciate Austin style
"...Renaissance Hotel (9721 Arboretum Blvd., 343-2626), the Austin Lyric Opera Guild presents the Opera Ball 2007: Memoirs of a..."

Jan. 26, 2007 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

After a Fashion
Huzzah! Stephen is back, jingling his balls and getting all Carrie on yo' keister.
"...Jan. 19, 7:30pm, at Bass Concert Hall, Austin Lyric Opera presents the American premiere of Philip Glass' opera Waiting..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Top 10 Dance and Classical Music Events That Made 2006 a Year to Remember
"...6) Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Austin Lyric Opera) Our yearlong citywide celebration of Dmitri Shostakovich got off..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Marie Antoinette
Don’t fear the film’s early reviews from Cannes, which too often slighted it for being fluffy (it isn’t, though its heroine is) or ahistorical (it isn’t, though it is contemporary).
"...(cue Siouxsie & the Banshees), gambling, opium, gossip, pastries, opera, and her bucolic chateau. Her indulgences are entirely apolitical,..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

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