Archives from 2011

If you’ve had all you can Handel but need a Baroque oratorio to get you in the holiday spirit, look no further than Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. It’s not about competition with Me

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At the end of John Patrick Shanley’s multi-award winning play and film Doubt, the formidable Sister Aloysius cries, “Oh, Sister James. I have doubts! I have such doubts!”Those two short lines a

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Cincinnati Opera, CCM collaborate on Opera Fusion production of Doubt

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Superstar violinist Joshua Bell kicks off his solo recital tour in Cincinnati and brings the Constella Festival’s inaugural season to a close Tuesday at Memorial Hall. Bell is a rarity, a prodigy wh

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The Constella Festival

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Classical musical season offers eclectic mix options

Cincinnati's “Classical” music scene moving in exciting new directions

Cincinnati Opera offers a cinematic version of 'The Magic Flute'

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Mozart's opera 'The Magic Flute' is a perfect point of entry for kids. There's plenty of fantasy, a happy ending, no one dies and the music is sublime. But for director Tomer Zvulun, it's all about the magic. "I was a really weird kid," he says. "My obse

A first-person account of being a super for Cincinnati Opera

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After years of writing about classical music and opera, I’m actually in an opera as a supernumerary, the operatic equivalent of an extra. My role: a Russian peasant peeling potatoes in the first scene of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.

Joana Carneiro has a knack for being in the right place at the right time. She was born in 1976, two years after her native Portugal overthrew dictatorship for democracy. "The country was open to opportunity for everyone — there were no barriers," Carnei

Joana Carneiro leads Cincinnati Opera's latest production

The leads in Rigoletto draw on personal experience for their roles

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Cincinnati Opera’s 2011 season is another surefire summer bet

An intense father-daughter relationship is at the heart of Verdi’s opera Rigoletto, which opens Cincinnati Opera’s summer season with performances Thursday and Saturday. Baritone Stephen Powell makes his role debut as Rigoletto, the acid-tongued jester,

From future legal eagle to songbird, Lawrence Brownlee’s diverted flight path

Tags: Theater, May Festival, Cincinnati arts, Music Hall, Cincinnati Opera

In the summer of 2004, an unknown African-American tenor starred in Cincinnati Opera’s production of The Daughter of the Regiment, best known for the killer aria “Ah! Mes Amis!” with its nine high C notes. Lawrence Brownlee made it sound effortless, spin

We said farewell to Paavo Jarvi and now venerable maestro James Conlon takes the helm for 2011’s May Festival, the annual choral extravaganza featuring the CSO, the May Festival Chorus and a host of world-class soloists. The festival opens with Verdi’s R

LGBT youth arts group delivers inspirational message

Tags: Theater, MUSE, Cincinnati arts, Gay