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Barbara Smith Conrad
A week of celebration for the great mezzo where her career was launched against all odds
"...in the School of Music production of Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas. But the male student cast opposite..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

TV Eye
DTV transition day is looming. Are you prepared?
"...Austin Lyric Opera's production of Cinderella will air on KLRU thanks to..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

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

Austin Classical Organizations
Classical companies respond to the economic crisis before the fat lady can sing
"...• Austin Lyric Opera has canceled the 2009 Opera Ball, its huge fundraising..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Princes of Punk
New Kinks “Picture Book”
"...low-down live compliment with the latter’s “Slum Kids.” Soap Opera (“Holiday Romance”) and Schoolboys in Disgrace (“No More Looking..."

Jan. 9, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Obsessive
AFS Essential Cinema presents the early films of Brian De Palma
"...rock & roll update on The Phantom of the Opera that advertised itself as "the Most Highly Acclaimed Horror..."

Jan. 9, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Top 10 Musical Triumphs, Plus Evidence That Austin Is Innovating the Classical World
Chronicle Arts writer Michael Kellerman recalls 2008, in classical music
"...4) The Bat (Austin Lyric Opera)..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Arts Feature by Michael Kellerman

Top 10 Most Memorable Locally Produced Live Performance Offerings That I Chanced to See in 2008
Chronicle Arts writer Barry Pineo on the most memorable moments onstage in 2008
"...4) Cinderella (Austin Lyric Opera) The first opera I'd ever seen and hopefully not..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Screens Top 10s
The Chronicle's film critics talk about their favorite movies of the year
"...Repo! The Genetic Opera. Blood saga? Goth opera? Over-the-top theatrics with the bar..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Screens Feature

Top 10 Dance and Classical Music Wonders of 2008
Chronicle Arts Editor Robert Faires recaps 2008 in dance and classical music
"...3) The Bat (Austin Lyric Opera) Viennese Champagne swapped for a tangy margarita. ALO's reinvention..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 Spaces With Art Maybe You Haven't Been To (In No Particular Order)
Chronicle Arts writer Rachel Koper on 2008's best new and undiscovered visual arts spaces
"...8) The OPERA House (2209-K S. First, www.theoperahousestore.com)..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

After a Fashion
Stephen counts down last year: Sometimes he loses count
"...wore with all black accessories to the Houston Grand Opera Ball..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Top 10 Theatrical Treasures and Pleasures of 2008
Chronicle Arts Editor Robert Faires recalls 2008, in the theatre
"...Porgy and Bess (Zach Theatre) George Gershwin's 1930s folk opera rescored for the 21st century. Arranger Greg Bolin distilled..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

12 Steps to a More Dysfunctional Christmas
Rob Nash's solo show is funny, honest, and a welcome relief from saccharine holiday shows
"...has no shortage of drama, with multiple deaths and soap-opera-esque turns in its compact 90 minutes. But 12 Steps..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Off the Record
The politics of Austin music in 2008: Barack Obama boogies back to Texas, a Man From Plains, and the Live Music Task Force
"...music of Daniel Johnston, Zach Theatre staged the rock opera Speeding Motorcycle, featuring Glass Eye's Kathy McCarty. Bluesman Gary..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Lou Reed
"...Lou Reed's cardinal work Berlin, a venerably filthy rock opera originally released in 1973. In 2006, he galvanized his..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Music Review by Francesca Camillo

The Nutcracker
Cynic admits: Ballet Austin's take sparks the imagination with beauty and grace
"...as possible, beyond the realm of logic. If it's opera, the heroine will spend a whole aria dying. If..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Flying Solo
Eleanor Whitmore spreads her wings
"...comes from a musical family: Her mother is an opera singer, her father a singer-songwriter in his own right,..."

Dec. 17, 2008 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

TV Eye
Independent Lens rolls out more standout docs
"...to recommend a film about the creation of an opera that's about the creation of the atomic bomb. However,..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Early to Rise
Daniel Johnson loves early music's purity of sound and intimacy, and he's not alone
"...a more human scale than the symphonic, choral, and operatic masterpieces of the 18th and 19th centuries. "There's a..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

I'll Be Seeing You: A 1940's Christmas Musical
TexARTS' original holiday revue is thrilling when it's not hampered by tentativeness
"...years' time but a ballet, a symphony, and an opera to serve the lake region, as well. Austin sets..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Lake City
A heavy-handed melodrama that features a young, brooding antihero and Sissy Spacek as his emotionally paralyzed mom.
"...the perfect overblown protagonist for the perfect overcooked soap opera, one in which writer/directors Hill and Moore have mixed..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Movin' on Up
Melissa Villareal's life was changed by Ballet East
"...an Austin-skyline backdrop to produce an urban atmosphere and soap-opera-style background music to set the mood, the show alternated..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die: A Listener's Life List
"...hundreds of recordings in jazz, folk, blues, art music, opera, and especially world music, making 1,000 Recordings to Hear..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Music Feature by Daniel Mee

Time Warner Removing Quality Channels
"...the consumer. Last time I checked, however, the Soap Opera Channel was still available, thank God. And if you..."

Dec. 1, 2008 Postmarks

Cinderella
ALO's version, set in 1930s Hollywood, is the definition of audience-friendly
"...The actual title of Gioachino Rossini's opera is La Cenerentola, but, of course, Austin Lyric Opera..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Repo! The Genetic Opera
This cyber-gothic opera set in an unsavory world of the near-future stars Sarah Brightman, Paul Sorvino, and Paris Hilton, among others.
"...Zdunich. What could be more suited to the classic operatic format than a cyber-gothic story of family treachery, clandestine..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin Lyric Opera
ALO teams with KMFA and KLRU to get its season opener on public radio and television
"...the new production of Rossini's Cinderella by Austin Lyric Opera, but if you don't have a fairy godmother who..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Playing Through
Shannon McCormick and Graham Reynolds' Unbeaten revels in the camp aspects of football in a loving way
"...make Sontag's list today. For, like drag queens and opera, pro football involves a "love of the exaggerated" –..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Column by Thomas Hackett

Zach Theatre
Just in time for Zach's diamond anniversary, a pair of million-dollar donations
"...million, plus another $5 million for an endowment and operating reserves. Zach has almost $2 million left from a..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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