SAN FRANCISCO--For Ron Meiners, the aha! moment came during Burning Man 2006. A longtime attendee of the countercultural arts festival, Meiners had been thinking about how one would explain what ...
In a vast studio at the Seattle Opera Center on a recent Monday evening, a glorious noise was heard. While rehearsing the end of Act I of the beloved Puccini opera “Tosca,” the voices of 46 Seattle ...
Twenty-five years ago, a new opera titled “Dead Man Walking” made its world premiere in a San Francisco Opera production. Based on the same-titled 1993 memoir by author and activist Sister Helen ...
Absolute in its skill and devastating in its power, Houston Grand Opera's Dead Man Walking more than lives up to the reputation that this uncompromising and thoroughly engrossing work has acquired ...
The opening scene of “Dead Man Walking” immediately garnered discomfort: Dark, unsettling music echoed throughout the auditorium as two teenagers’ risqué lakeside rendezvous became the site of ...
Next week, more than 50,000 people are expected to camp in Nevada's Black Rock Desert for the Burning Man festival. Among the towering fire sculptures, elaborate neo-Victorian costumes and LED ...
Will you step up to support Dallas Observer this year? At the Dallas Observer, we’re small and scrappy — and we make the most of every dollar from our supporters. Right now, we’re $15,600 away from ...
He is touched by the opera's bittersweet story of the opera's courtesan heroine, Violetta. "What's so amazing is this woman -- face it, it is Violetta's opera -- how she struggles at the end. She dies ...
It's not every day a Buffalo guy lands on stage at the Metropolitan Opera. So when bass-baritone Valerian Ruminski pulled it off, in a big production of "Carmen" last year, everyone sat up and took ...
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