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How About Some Music a Little out of the Ordinary This Weekend?
It’s not only rock & roll, but we fucking love it
"...Saengerrunde Hall, featuring the transcendent voices of One Ounce Opera and guitarist Celil Refik Kaya and their renditions of..."

Aug. 25, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Institution Theater's Fuck, It's Hot
The Austin-oriented sketch show has its rough spots, but it delivers lots of laughs as a cooling balm in the dog days
"...and lasting too long. And a sketch-turned-Phantom of the Opera-based musical number about the I-35 rock tosser goes on..."

Aug. 19, 2016 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Public Notice: Waitin' for the Money
Budget, bond drama overshadows all else
"...very great Graham Reynolds is developing an experimental chamber opera, Pancho Villa From a Safe Distance – "a thoughtful..."

Aug. 19, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Austin Chamber Music Festival: Marian Anderson String Quartet
At the end of a tragic week, the Marian Anderson String Quartet reached for grace and tendered it to us
"...UT, from singing opposite a white student in an opera. And the final work they performed that day addressed..."

July 15, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Dark Run
Mike Brooks' ragtag gang on a galactic smuggling mission may seem familiar (cough, Firefly), but you'll love 'em all the same
"...Firefly is inevitable, what with its droll good-guys-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-law space opera, but Dark Run doesn't suffer under the comparison; it..."

June 17, 2016 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

ATX Television Festival: Dancing in The West Wing
Looking back on the legacy of the Bartlet administration
"...staff of the fictional Bartlet administration. It was an opera that even survived the departure after four seasons of..."

June 12, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Dance/USA Convenes in Austin
The national arts organization brings honors for the Butlers and big questions about the form's future
"...been a key supporter of Austin's dance, music, and opera organizations for nearly two decades. Secondly, Ballet Austin Executive..."

June 10, 2016 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

The Highwaymen
"...Classicists José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, and Luciano Pavarotti soared opera to the top of the pops globally, while the..."

June 10, 2016 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Take-Out
Drinking habits can be a tough thing to swallow
"...their fuck-ups was an easy way to avoid. Soap opera dramatics was what I knew. It never occurred to..."

June 3, 2016 Food Column by Brandon Watson

X-Men: Apocalypse
Another bloated spectacle that serves neither the fans nor the story
"...(how many times can you blow up the Sydney Opera House? Infinitely, it seems). But Apocalypse never rises from..."

May 27, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Idol
The true story Mohammad Assaf, the Palestinian winner of Arab Idol
"...of escaping its borders and playing at the Cairo Opera House...."

May 27, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards
The 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards
"...two areas: Austin Playhouse's Disgraced; Austin Shake­speare's Medea; Butler Opera Center's At the Statue of Venus/Three Decembers; Kathy Dunn..."

May 27, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Year of the Booster
The 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards
"...two areas: Austin Playhouse’s Disgraced, Austin Shake­speare’s Medea, Butler Opera Center’s At the Statue of Venus/Three Decembers, Kathy Dunn..."

May 25, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Looking at the Big Picture
Paramount Summer Classic Film Series goes large
"...of 2001, Baz Luhrmann released Moulin Rouge. A "rock opera" starring Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman – this was..."

May 20, 2016 Screens Feature by Sarah Marloff

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

The Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2016
These inductees – Ballet Austin's Cookie Ruiz and Stephen Mills, and the Austin Symphony Orchestra's Peter Bay – are cultural heroes who lead by example
"...orchestra for a performance by Ballet Austin or Austin Opera, an ensemble from the Austin Chamber Music Center or..."

May 6, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Opera's Joseph Specter Departing
General director since 2012 is off to lead Arizona Opera
"...the day after he joined the staff of Austin Opera as general director, Joseph Specter has tendered his resignation...."

April 29, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Lee Renaming Brings Out Butter-Knife-Sharp Wit
Don’t ask a question you don’t want to know the answer to
"...eight names for further consideration: • Barbara Smith Conrad, opera star and UT graduate • Bettie Mann, Lee's first..."

April 29, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Rhiannon Giddens Reanimates Black Feminism
Antebellum bandleader untangles African-American music history
"...The classically-trained opera enthusiast, 39, let her pipes loose on the burly,..."

April 26, 2016 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

DVDanger: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Bill Moseley on being Chop Top, and living as a horror icon
"...roles. You've got Luigi Largo in Repo! The Genetic Opera, you've got Otis, and you've got Chop Top. Sometimes..."

April 26, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Old Settler's Music Festival Phases & Stages
"...Taking the Who's 1969 rock opera Tommy for a hayride doesn't impress on concept alone,..."

April 15, 2016 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

This Fresh Squeeze Is All About the Opera Shorts
One Ounce Opera premieres a concert of new young composers
"...Yes, that’s Austin’s own One Ounce Opera. The ristretto-strength renegades who overdubbed Jackass: The Movie with..."

April 13, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

AISD Explores Its Options
AISD has at least 10 properties it could be making better use of
"...West Sixth? Or that it owns the historic Millett Opera House, currently home to the Austin Club, where Texas'..."

April 8, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

AISD Properties on the RFP List
"...2) Millett Opera House,110 E. Ninth..."

April 8, 2016 News Feature

Shawn Sides and Graham Reynolds: Rude and Golden
How two of Austin's top creative stars meld a busy life of art and love
"...Reynolds: It's a chamber opera, staged, the whole thing. And Shawn's directing. But, for..."

March 25, 2016 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Culture Flash! March 2016
Honors for Dietz, compassion for ASO, and China for the ballet
"...the Israeli-born musician Lior and premiered at the Sydney Opera House in 2013, and was so moved by its..."

March 23, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Thursday SXSW Picks
"...fills provided Deep Purple pathos to Watt's semi-autobiographical rock opera based on Dante's Inferno. A pensive cover of "Shit..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

Thursday Night SXSW Showcases
"...and small-chamber works – performs portions of his new opera Pancho Villa From a Safe Distance. Closing out the..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Mavericks Tame Rodeo Austin
Raul Malo’s caballeros take opening weekend to the cantina
"...with a tenor slumming in pop music rather than opera...."

March 14, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

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

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