It was brave and ambitious of the Madison Opera to choose Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw for its mid-season production. Perhaps the most intriguing and durable of his "chamber operas," this one takes up the best-known of Henry James's ghost stories, a study as much in psychological enigmas as in ectoplasm ...
The spring arts season really revs up this weekend. The calendar includes: the Segredo grand opening; productions of Tarantara! Tarantara! and Cattywompus ; Automata at the Chazen; the Wedding Planner ' Guide Bridal Show; the Madfest Juggling Extravaganza; stand-up by Rodney Carrington and reading by Janice Y.K. Lee; Opera Up Close; and, live music by Dustin Zahn, Sonoi, Bryan Bowers, The Midwesterners, The Goodyear Pimps, Jon Wayne ' the Pain, Ralph's World, Madison Youth Choirs, The
The second half of the 2009-10 theater season still awaits us, and in Milwaukee there are always promising productions on the horizon. So let's take a look ahead through Memorial Day and choose some shows to eagerly anticipate.
Friday night the Madison Opera opened this season with a lavish production in Overture Hall of the perennial crowd-pleaser, Bizet's Carmen ... And a production to please it surely was ...
Friday night in Overture Hall, the Madison Symphony Orchestra opened its second concert program with the ebullient overture to Glinka's opera Ruslan and Ludmilla ... The well-drilled string players brought off their fiendishly fast parts triumphantly ...
Special guest performers and members of Madison's opera with the symphony orchestra entertained the thousands watching on blankets and chairs at Garner Park Saturday ... It was all part of the 8th annual Opera in the Park ...
With the rain holding off virtually to program's end, this year's Opera in the Park benefited from beautifully mild weather, drawing another audience of enthusiastic thousands gathered at Garner Park ...
Gounod's Faust endures as a sure-fire audience-pleaser, whether because of or despite any given production. After 150 years, however, there is still no definitive edition of the score, while performances offer jumbled versions of an inherently corrupt tradition ...