First Night Records really should have packaged their two new releases as one box set – if you want one of them (and you really should) then you will definitely want them both. Unfortunately, they haven’t released them for sale in the US yet, but you can order them now either from the company’s website […]
Archives for September 18, 2012
Anna Bolena
If you want to hear one great operatic voice make your soul vibrate, go hear Sondra Radvanovsky in Anna Bolena. Washington National Opera opened its season Saturday night giving Washington’s black tie set a singer who demonstrated unequivocally that she can take charge and embody this difficult role.
In Spite of Love
The GALA Hispanic Theatre has launched its 37th season with a bracing, not-to-be-missed U.S. premiere of a comic masterpiece by Agustin Moreto, a Spanish Catholic priest and contemporary of Lope de Vega and Calderon de la Barca during Spain’s 17th century Golden Age.El Desdén con el desdén (literally “Disdain with Disdain”) is heady, magnificent time-travel. […]