by Jeff Maisey | Mar 23, 2017 | Music News, News, News & Views
Compiled by Staff Cecile McLorin Salvant Presented by Virginia Arts Festival April 9 Robin Hixon Theater Classically trained, this award-winning jazz vocalist has seized the imagination of the audience with her “resoundingly eloquent” voice — “whether growling...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 23, 2017 | News, News & Views
By Jim Morrison Twenty years ago, Keith Moone was a seventh grader in the band at Craddock Middle School in Portsmouth when Scott Jackson showed up to say the new Virginia Arts Festival was offering a chance to learn steel pan and African drum and dance. Soon, Moone...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 23, 2017 | Musical Theater, News, News & Views
Compiled by Staff Turandot Virginia Opera March 17, 19, 21 Based on an ancient fable set in China, this story of the legendary Princess Turandot, so desirable that men risked their heads for her hand in marriage, weaves the quest for love with the ultimate...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 23, 2017 | Classical, Music News, News, News & Views
Compiled by Staff tenThing Presented by Virginia Arts Festival March 23 Attucks Theatre Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth has won rave reviews in recital and headlining orchestra concerts from the BBC Proms to Carnegie Hall. She also leads a unique...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 23, 2017 | Dance, News, News & Views
Compiled by Staff Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet: Swan Lake Presented by Virginia Arts Festival March 31 – April 2 Chrysler Hall Granted its “Royal” title in 1953 by the just-crowned Queen Elizabeth II, this legendary troupe is one of the world’s oldest premier...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 23, 2017 | News, News & Views
By Jim Roberts Ivan Vargas is a happy clown, but he broke character last May at the final Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus performance that featured elephants. “I usually keep my emotions in check because I’m out there performing,” he said in a recent...
