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Marc Seriff Named New Long Center CEO
Longtime trustee serving as interim leader gets gig for good
"...sectors – founding CTO of America Online, co-founder and operator of nonprofit incubator the Seriff Foundation, chair of the..."

March 4, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Playback: The Mayor's Plan to Save Austin Music
Mayor Steve Adler addresses the elephant in the club, Susan Antone honored, and Henry Gonzalez goes to the head of the Austin poster artist altar
"...production world – including stage manager of the Austin Opera House...."

March 4, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

1,000 Forest Gorillas in Kansas
Heloise Gold and Natalie George's dance-theatre work posed the question: What if we took the time to count?
"...counted down from 1,000, the tricycles, and the mock opera were all spun sugar around a central question: What..."

March 4, 2016 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

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

SXSW List No. 8
Chvrches, Mike Watt, MSTRKRFT, and 123 more
"...of Fire, Rebecca Loebe, Graham Reynolds (performing his chamber opera Pancho Villa From a Safe Distance), the Ripe, Sour..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

GenEnCo's The Mikado: Reclaimed
In this newly devised work, Asian-American artists grapple with the complicated legacy of Gilbert & Sullivan's opera
"...S Society: The Mikado was the ninth of 14 operas that librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan created..."

Feb. 12, 2016 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Zach Theatre's Tribes
Nina Raine's award-winning drama explores the different forms of language and how we understand each other
"...Ruth (Ava L'Amoreaux) has ambitions to perform as an opera singer and is essentially ignored whenever she speaks, especially..."

Feb. 12, 2016 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

White Denim 2.0
Frontman James Petralli talks of the old days and a new era
"...we did this tour with Wilco where we played opera houses. We’d played big gigs in New York and..."

Feb. 4, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Lazer Team
The first feature film from Austin's Rooster Teeth gang is a hoot
"...Halo video game as a uniquely weird, comic space opera, enters the feature-film realm with this sci-fi action movie,..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin Opera to Mount Manchurian Candidate
Kevin Puts' take on political thriller opens 2016-17 season
"...but how better to break the news about Austin Opera's 30th season than to say it opens with a..."

Jan. 27, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Austin Opera's Of Mice and Men
Artistic Director Richard Buckley on returning to the Carlisle Floyd opera that launched his conducting career
"...Richard Buckley knows a thing or two about the opera Of Mice and Men, and not just because he's..."

Jan. 22, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Michelle Schumann and Graham Reynolds' Joyful Noise
For their new Austin Chamber Music Center collaboration, the pianist and composer crank up the reverb but good
"...support from Creative Capital [$50,000 to develop his chamber opera Pancho Villa From a Safe Distance and $45,000 for..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Day Trips & Beyond: January Events Roundup
Happenings, news, and more
"...Jerry Jeff Walker Concert Jan. 2, the Grand 1894 Opera House, Galveston, 409/765-1894, www.thegrand.com..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Top 10 Dance/Classical Music Treasures of 2015
Leaving deep impressions from 2015's dance and classical music works were the unexpected elements, like screen doors, trees, and car horns
"...neighborhood's life and to nature deepened. 7) Aida (Austin Opera)..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
The Force awakens, and a franchise reboots
"...can’t be said for the epic and ongoing space opera’s more human heroes, though. Scoundrel Han Solo (Ford) and..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Movers & Shakers
A guide to Austin dance
"...Be it the voice of singer-songwriter Patrice Pike or operatic soprano Cheryl Parrish, the images of videographer (and spouse)..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Dinner Lab + Phaidon = Magnus Nilsson's Nordic Feast
Not even an army of frost giants could keep us from this culinary event
"...of a parking garage, the properties room of an opera company...."

Nov. 16, 2015 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

In Memoriam: Jo Anne Christian
Arts patron, leading force in building Long Center has died
"...Serenaded by Verdi, Puccini, and other composers whose operatic works she treasured, a treasured friend of the Austin..."

Nov. 14, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

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

Fun Fun Fun Lists
"...progressive hardcore act (Canadian) of the past decade offer psych-opera single "Year of the Hare."..."

Nov. 6, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Five Nights With Monsters
ATX Halloween week: Witches, werewolves, and haints, oh my!
"...You know, opera isn't just consumptive courtesans and cigarette-rolling floozies. The world..."

Oct. 22, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Five Faces of Frankenstein
This Halloween, Austin serves up five freaky takes on Mary Shelley's mad doctor and his monster
"...their own plan for the brain device. One Ounce Opera stages the premiere...."

Oct. 23, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

University of Texas University Orchestra's Fall 2015 Concert
The audience-friendly first concert of the school year offered earfuls of drama from Bizet, Beethoven, and more
"...three of the composers are best known for their operas, as a matter of course the music will be..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Simple Man, Simple Dream
Part of the Seventies Southern California songwriting cabal that produced Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, and the Eagles, J.D. Souther brings his craft to the Dripping Springs Songwriters' Festival
"...before he was born. His father's mother was an opera singer, and her parents before her the same. Around..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Music Feature by William Harries Graham

Austin's Paramount Theatre Turns 100
As the grande dame of Austin theatres turns 100, it matters more than ever
"...the Paramount's past, part budget for the renovation and operations (both wildly optimistic). Then, in February 1975 they got..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Q&A: Mike Watt
Econo-jamming bass man headlines an alternate ACL
"...album, I used James Joyce’s Ulysses. For the second opera, I used Dante’s [Divina] Commedia for that sickness that..."

Oct. 1, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

ACL Fest 2015 Friday Listings
Blurbs on the hour
"...the Grammy-winning act's old-timey string band confines. The 37-year-old opera-trained singer's 2015 solo debut, the T Bone Burnett-produced Tomorrow..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Music Feature

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

Omi Osun Joni L. Jones' Theatrical Jazz
The accomplished stage artist, scholar, and UT professor pens the first study of artists translating jazz aesthetics into theatre
"...more builds on a variety of performance traditions – opera, performance art, fairy tales, historical fiction – along with..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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