ALO HQ Breaks Ground & Breaks Into Song

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April 9, 1999 Arts Feature

ALO Lands Conductor

"...for a successor to conductor Sung Kwak. We mean ALO -- Austin Lyric Opera -- which has been holding..."

June 14, 1996 Arts Column by Robert Faires

More Than a ZIP Code

In the exhibition "Road to 78704," artists Jill Alo and Tina Weitz pay tribute to the distinctive mood and ambience of South Austin.

"...Jill Alo and Tina Weitz know that, and the two artists..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Lyric Opera

Despite its seven-figure debt, the opera lives to sing another day

"...on June 14, the board opted for the former. ALO will proceed with the three productions previously announced –..."

June 24, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Meet the New Bosses

Long Center director Cliff Redd and ALO director Richard Buckley compare notes on leading an arts institution, the challenges they face, and being new to Austin

"...ways. As Buckley prepared for his conducting debut with ALO – Tosca, which opens the opera's 2004-2005 season this..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The History of the LGBTQ Movement in Austin

From Stonewall to today, how Pride has progressed in our city

"...Steve Thomas, Lisa Davis, and all those we've lost along the way...."

Aug. 9, 2019 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

New Territories

Austin Lyric Opera Ventures Into the Frontier Once More

"...hit ocean. Then, when all the land had been cataloged or claimed, we turned our eyes upward, rushing to..."

Jan. 3, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Lyric Opera

With the sale of the Heller Opera Center, ALO is back in the black

"...of almost 12 years. The $5.45 million sale to Megalomedia Inc., the local film and production company behind such..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Lyric Opera: Fat lady sings for artistic/managing director split

Austin Lyric Opera Artistic Director Richard Buckley and Managing Director Tamara Hale are both leaving their posts in June 2007, after which ALO will return to a single general director running the show

"...be resigning as managing director when her contract with ALO is up the same month. The two have been..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

Months of speculation come to an end as Austin Lyric Opera appoints conductor Richard Buckley to the position of artistic director.

"...A New Day at ALO..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

More trouble at Austin Lyric Opera as it fires seven staff members and eliminates its Young Artist Program.

"...Commerce vice-president of resource development who stepped off the ALO board and into the management hole left by the..."

May 30, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Song of Life on Death Row

How Dead Man Walking came to be an opera -- and to be produced in Austin before almost every other city in the world -- reveals the great risks and rewards in developing new works for the modern operatic stage.

"...And they are not alone in being so profoundly affected. Here, opera itself finds..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Lyric Opera

ALO is selling its headquarters and losing its community music school

"...in 2000. In the series of harsh measures that ALO has taken this year – having Kevin Patterson resign..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Lyric Opera's Stampede

The opera launches a festival to celebrate Austin's musical diversity

"...of Darden Smith, Michael Fracasso, and Seth Walker. When ALO decided to start its own festival to raise funds..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Lyric Opera: Breaking Glass

For Austin Lyric Opera's 20th season, artistic director Richard Buckley has lined up the American premiere of Philip Glass' opera 'Waiting for the Barbarians'

"...sail for new territory in a major way. For ALO's 20th season next year, he's lined up the company's..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

The Austin Shakespeare Festival gets a roof over its head and a place of its own, and Austin Lyric Opera gets a new season and a cool million

"...this moment in its history was not lost on ALO, which announced its 2004-2005 season at a gala soiree..."

March 5, 2004 Arts Column by Robert Faires

La Bohème

Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème brings to life a fantastic world through gorgeous music, and Austin Lyric Opera's production treated the audience to rich glimpses of that fantastic world: 1870s Paris bustling with people, ideas, love, and song.

"...riches where they least expect them. The effect in ALO's staging was sort of an operatic version of the..."

March 14, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Articulations

A weekly rundown of the latest news in Austin's visual and performing arts scene

"...ALO Fires Founder..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Sexy Beast

With a bold new take on Andre Previn's operatic adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire, Austin Lyric Opera has a remarkable opportunity to lead the operatic pack and show the world the stuff it's made of.

"...running. But it was more than zeal that led ALO General Director Joseph McClain to hire him for what..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin's Classical Music Preview 'Tis the Season

I've written about the

"...new production, with a set designed especially for the ALO, of Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia Di Lammermoor. This classic tragedy..."

Nov. 17, 1995 Arts Feature

The Magic Flute

ALO opens its 25th season with a magical revival of Mozart's opera

"...of Mozart's immortal singspiel The Magic Flute. Just as ALO's first season opened with beloved opera icons Papageno, Sarastro,..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

'Hat' Trick

The Austin Chamber Music Festival gets you as close to opera as can be

"...Winterreise two years ago, Patterson had the thought that ALO ought to be collaborating with the festival. Over coffee..."

July 9, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Cinderella

ALO's version, set in 1930s Hollywood, is the definition of audience-friendly

"...for the Lyric Opera of Kansas City in 2004. ALO has brought to Austin the sets, costumes, and Bruce..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Bats Left, Sings Right

With help from Esther's Follies, Austin Lyric Opera turns Strauss' Viennese waltz into a Texas two-step

"...Opera conductor Richard Buckley, in his former role as ALO artistic director, was considering what might make for a..."

May 30, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Lyric Opera: 'Carmen' glee-a

ALO makes its long-awaited move into the Long Center with opera's favorite libertine

"...hip logo and an impressive new website accompany the ALO's move to its new home at the Long Center,..."

April 18, 2008 Arts Feature by Michael Kellerman

'The Barber of Seville': Oh, we meant to do it this way

With Bass Concert Hall no longer available, Austin Lyric Opera is working to stage The Barber of Seville in a hall with no orchestra pit, no proscenium, and no wing space

"...the University of Texas campus. A year from now, ALO, like other Austin arts organizations, will be performing at..."

April 13, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Cold Sassy Tree

The Austin Lyric Opera production of Cold Sassy Tree, Carlisle Floyd's sweet, simple opera of blooming love between a small-town Georgia shopkeeper and a much younger woman, featured a fine ensemble giving heartwarming performances, but their efforts were repeatedly wrecked by poorly executed set changes that brought the show to a halt.

"...in the provinces. This opera, which was co-commissioned by ALO, Houston Grand Opera (where the opera premiered), San Diego..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

The South Bank

"...the cheese in the old children's song: It stood alone...."

Dec. 4, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Hansel and Gretel'

Mezzo Liz Cass lands a big break playing the familiar fairy-tale villainess

"...roles, got to step into a major part in ALO's final show this season when the singer who was..."

April 23, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

L'Étoile (The Star)

You can thank your lucky stars for this opera of big, colorful, bouncy fun

"...ALO's staging builds on that with animated stylishness. Literally. Andrew..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Arts Review by Robert Faires

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