by David Maurer | Mar 17, 2016 | Classical Music and Opera, Featured |
Watching virtually any production of Madame Butterfly outside of high school productions requires some suspension of disbelief. After all, the story’s protagonist Cio-Cio-San is supposed to be only 15 years old when she marries the American cad Pinkerton. Even after...
by David Maurer | Mar 5, 2016 | Classical Music and Opera, Featured |
Can a two-horse mining town in the Old West peopled with provincial rubes stand in for the rarified world of Parisian aristocrats in the Gay Nineties? If you’re Pacific Opera Project it can. The Merry Widow composer Franz Lehár might roll over in his grave to see his...
by David Maurer | Feb 27, 2016 | Featured, Theater and Dance |
It is said that Shakespeare’s The Tempest is one of the most adaptable of the Bard’s works. Indeed, some 46 operas have been inspired by it along with numerous orchestral works, poems, paintings and plays. Tempest Redux — a co-production of the Odyssey Theatre...
by David Maurer | Jan 25, 2016 | Theater and Dance |
A few years back, Janet Schlapkohl, an adjunct professor of drama at the University of Iowa, was intrigued by an unusual pair of students in her theater class: elfin identical twin sisters Emily and Elizabeth Hinkler. So, when opportunity knocks… write a play! That...
by David Maurer | Dec 20, 2015 | Theater and Dance |
Most people know of the Righteous Brothers only from listening to oldies stations that sometimes play their hits, such as You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’, Unchained Melody and others. People who came of age in the 1960s might know a bit more about them, such as the...
