Flamencos, Mariachis, and Murder Announced for Austin Opera 2023-24 Season

New year kicks off with murderous classic Pagliacci

"...Austin Opera's current season is not yet over, but before..."

Jan. 27, 2023 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Opera's Joseph Specter Departing

General director since 2012 is off to lead Arizona Opera

"...to the day after he joined the staff of Austin Opera as general director, Joseph Specter has tendered his..."

April 29, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Austin Opera to Mount Manchurian Candidate

Kevin Puts' take on political thriller opens 2016-17 season

"...cliche, but how better to break the news about Austin Opera's 30th season than to say it opens with..."

Jan. 27, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Austin Opera Terminates Buckley's Contract

Artistic director said to have violated policy on harassment

"...Austin Opera announced today that it has "terminated the employment..."

Feb. 1, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Austin Opera's Of Mice and Men

Artistic Director Richard Buckley on returning to the Carlisle Floyd opera that launched his conducting career

"...Richard Buckley knows a thing or two about the opera Of Mice and Men, and not just because he's..."

Jan. 22, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Opera Takes Aim at the Election With Its Adaptation of The Manchurian Candidate

Composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell shoot to thrill in their opera based on Richard Condon's Cold War classic

"...unconventional of election years, why not have an unconventional opera, one that speaks directly to American politics and also..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Opera Sets Audiences Atop the World's Tallest Mountain

Joby Talbot's adventurous new opera scales Everest

"...composer Joby Talbot and librettist Gene Scheer have taken opera to new heights – literally – in Everest. Their..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Opera Races Back Into Live Performance With Tosca at Circuit of the Americas

The company brings grand opera to the Grand Prix with an outdoor staging of Puccini's powerhouse

"...By the summer of 2020, Austin Opera knew that the first two productions of its..."

April 30, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Opera's Everest

The production took audiences to the summit with powerhouse elements that made this opera grand

"...Opera, I've come to find, is defined by its ability..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Arts Review by Trey Gutierrez

Austin Opera's Madame Butterfly

The company delivers a lovely staging of this Puccini opera that builds to a heartbreaking finale

"...In the 113 years since Giacomo Puccini penned the opera, societal attitudes have evolved to make the tale of..."

May 5, 2017 Arts Review by Michelle Haché

Austin Opera Probes the Power and Perils of Connection With The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs

The local company launches a new collaborative production for the nation

"...choose pieces that we think will make sense for Austin." So says Austin Opera general director and CEO Annie..."

Jan. 28, 2022 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Proposed Development Would Revive Austin Opera House but Faces Neighbor Opposition

200 Academy Drive: Big hit or last call?

"...Congress strip, looks wholly unremarkable today. But it's an Austin cultural landmark dating back 45 years, home to vitally..."

Jan. 21, 2022 News Feature by Kevin Curtin

Austin Opera’s Ariadne auf Naxos

Dude ranch antics make this reimagining of Strauss too busy, but when the music takes center stage, it’s gorgeous

"...The desire to liberate operas from their traditional settings to modern-day milieus can yield..."

Feb. 2, 2018 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Review: Austin Opera’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Sharp Sondheim staging could benefit from some musical raggedness

"...F2-Gb4 bass, flamboyant B2-C5 tenor, and sprightly Bb3-A5 soprano, operatic stagings seemed inevitable...."

Feb. 1, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Austin Opera's Silent Night

This production of the Pulitzer Prize winner powerfully creates the tension of the battlefield and just as powerfully lets it go

"...For an opera inspired by the 1914 Christmas Truce, wherein soldiers on..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Arts Review by Trey Gutierrez

Austin Opera's La Bohème

The beauty of the music and stagecraft in this production teaches us something about love and art

"...Thanos' dismembered universe, how about a night at the opera?..."

May 3, 2019 Arts Review by Laura Jones

Austin Opera's The Daughter of the Regiment

Just as the young woman of the title is deemed "charming," so too is Donizetti's work in this company's staging

"...is with the 21st Regiment. And yet, this charming opera offers an even brighter touch: a young woman, Marie,..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Faster Than Sound: Neighbors Push to Limit Size of Austin Opera House Project

Traffic concerns clash with midsize venue vision at 200 Academy Dr. development

"...sticking point. The development hopes to revive the former Austin Opera House club off South Congress. While the owners..."

April 29, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Aida

In Verdi's Egyptian tragedy, Austin Opera excavates from the pomp and pageantry the personal

"...least as imagined by Giuseppe Verdi and presented by Austin Opera in its latest staging of Aida. Oh, the..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Review: Austin Opera’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Sharp Sondheim staging could benefit from some musical raggedness

Feb. 3, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Nominees for the 2018-19 Austin Critics Table Awards Announced

The Critics Table's picture-perfect year

"...Members of the Austin Critics Table have considered the hundreds of stage productions,..."

May 13, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Lake|Flato's Impact on Austin

The firm behind the new library has changed our city's look

"...28 has generated much buzz for Lake|Flato, the San Antonio/Austin-based architectural firm that partnered on the project with Boston's..."

Oct. 31, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Austin Arts Happenings Online: A Chronicle Round-up for Your Quarantined Exploration

Live and creative diversions – from your talented friends & neighbors

"...So many Austinites doing live shows (or even something resembling what we’d..."

March 23, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin's Hip-Hop Pioneers, in Their Own Words

The Austin History Center-archived rappers and industry innovators share stories

"...Ryan Blake, offering a rare recording of undigitized Eighties/Nineties Austin girl group Cooly Girls. Alongside taking over Manners' longtime..."

Sept. 15, 2023 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

"Shoot Like a Grrrl" Takes You on a Club Crawl Through Lost Austin

Photographer Martha Grenon's exhibit at SouthPop covers the Austin music scene in the Eighties and Nineties

"...print: "Joe Ely and (Little) Charlie Sexton, Club Foot, Austin, June 1982," adding that Charlie is 13. That may..."

Aug. 30, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Playback: Austin Music Awards (On Everything)

Austin Music Industry Awards down, here come the 2016/17 AMAs and a slew of SXSW buzz acts

"...Blaze Foley's been added to the 2016/17 Austin Music Awards lineup!..."

March 10, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2016

These inductees – Ballet Austin's Cookie Ruiz and Stephen Mills, and the Austin Symphony Orchestra's Peter Bay – are cultural heroes who lead by example

"...That the vitality of Austin's cultural scene is owed to its leaders – those..."

May 6, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Playback: The Mayor's Plan to Save Austin Music

Mayor Steve Adler addresses the elephant in the club, Susan Antone honored, and Henry Gonzalez goes to the head of the Austin poster artist altar

"...biggest headliner ever on Wednesday ­– the Obamas – Austin music still has problems, and Steve Adler's here to..."

March 4, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

A Guide to Austin Classical Music

The virtuosi who know the score and make beautiful music happen here

"...throw you. In the context of classical music in Austin, it doesn't mean formal. It doesn't mean stodgy. It..."

April 26, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Aria Having Fun Yet, Austin?

One Ounce Opera takes it to where you live your life

"...Opera in your coffeehouse, opera at your club...."

Aug. 20, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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