by Jeff Maisey | May 10, 2019 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III In a Summer of Shakespeare reduced and condensed, of Shakespeare symphonic and abridged and played forwards and backwards; in a world awash with the Bard bowdlerized and modernized, concertized, danced and filmed and videoed, set in outer...
by Jeff Maisey | May 10, 2019 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III Shakespeare’s other pair of doomed lovers – Antony and Cleopatra, the grown up ones – play out their ill fated romance alongside the Virginia Symphony in Norfolk and Newport News mid-May under the baton of VSO’s much honored, triple...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 9, 2019 | Music, Music News, Musical Theater
By Michael Curry Three of Broadway’s — and American Musical Theatre’s — most adored and enduring stars are coming to Coastal Virginia. Look up American Musical Theatre or Great American Song Book and you will be sure to find the names Rob Fisher, Michael...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 29, 2019 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III A woefully obscure bit of American history, a shameful episode from an era that also produced some of our country’s greatest glories, takes life on the Harrison Opera House stage this April as part of Virginia Opera’s Variations Series. An...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 13, 2019 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montage Gammon III Virginia Opera closes its current season with Giacomo Puccini’s great heartbreaker, Madama Butterfly. Arguably one of the two great tear jerkers in the operatic repertoire – Puccini’s La Boheme being the other – it’s also one of the...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 7, 2019 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III A sparkling romantic comedy fueled by that dangerously explosive mix of glittering gold and fermented grape, Donizetti’s Elixir of Love comes to the Virginia Opera under the guidance of stage director Kyle Lang, whose VO productions of La Boheme...
