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

"...last year as the artistic director for Austin Lyric Opera; Redd was named the new executive director for the..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two

Local promoter and legend Tim O'Connor is retiring (well, he says he's retiring), and I want only to praise him. Hell, look at his accomplishments -- Castle Creek, Austin Opera House, Backyard, Austin Music Hall, La Zona Rosa, Willie, Farm Aid, and that's just the beginning.

"...produced many shows at O'Connor venues, first the Austin Opera House and then the Austin Music Hall and La..."

June 1, 2001 Column by Louis Black

Get Ready for the 2022 B. Iden Payne Awards

The full list of nominees before Monday's award ceremony

"...Hatch and Lardo Weeping, the new production from Local Opera Local Artists, including two nominations for local burlesqye icon..."

Oct. 22, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

The Challenge of Figaro

Tackling an Operatic Everest

"...Texas has had to ask themselves, as the UT Opera Theatre began work on a new revival of this..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Arts Feature

La Traviata

A tremendous, memorable production that even an opera novice will love

"...Hall at the Long Center, 701 W. Riverside, 472-5992, www.austinlyricopera.org..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Arts Review by Michael Kellerman

La Follia

La Serva Padrona was a surprise hit in 1733, and it still delights today

"...history. The bad news? It wasn't the big, serious opera written on commission. It was the frothy and fun..."

April 16, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Richard Buckley

Austin Lyric Opera artistic director Richard Buckley is taking his baton up to Ohio to serve as principal conductor for Opera Cleveland

"...in common? State capitals? No. Pro sports teams? No. Opera conductors? That's it. Richard Buckley, who has been conducting..."

July 28, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Arts Stalwarts

Twelve of Austin's cultural heroes will be inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame at the 2003 Austin Critics Table Awards ceremony, and here is an introduction to them and some of their significant contributions to the local arts scene.

"...-- conducted countless concerts, and served as Austin Lyric Opera's chorus master its first six seasons. Thanks to him,..."

May 30, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Farewell My Concubine

"...My Concubine is the name of a classic Chinese opera that relates the story of a concubine so loyal..."

Dec. 24, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

2017 Payne Theatre Award Nominees

E.A. Poe musical Nevermore leads the way with 11 noms

"...with nine nominations each: the musicals Atlantis: A Puppet Opera (ethos and Vortex Repertory Company) and Monty Python's Spamalot..."

Sept. 20, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Articulations

The passing of a longtime professor of music and the birth of a new opera by Austin Lyric Opera.

"...Seeds of a New Opera..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Maria by Callas

The genius soprano's contentious career in her own words

"...Tom Volf’s documentary about the opera singer Maria Callas (1923-1977) aims to rectify the world-acclaimed..."

Nov. 30, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'Porgy and Bess': A Select Chronology

The history of Gershwin's opera, from its conception in 1926 to its reinvention in Austin in 2008

"...1935: Renamed Porgy and Bess, the opera version premieres in New York, a collaboration among the..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Graham Reynolds

La Tentación de San Antonio

UT Opera Theatre tackles the American premiere of Luis Jaime Cortez's La Tentación de San Antonio with vigor, but there's too much here to take in in one pass

"...fresh scratches with La Tentación de San Antonio, his opera based on the novel by Gustave Flaubert currently receiving..."

March 5, 2004 Arts Review by Jerry Young

In Memoriam: Jo Anne Christian

Arts patron, leading force in building Long Center has died

"...Serenaded by Verdi, Puccini, and other composers whose operatic works she treasured, a treasured friend of the Austin..."

Nov. 14, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Give 'Em a Hand

The nominees for the 2009 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Arthuriosis: A Metal Opera, Getalong Gang..."

May 15, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Dialogues of the Carmelites'

Soprano Virginia Zeani recalls working with Francis Poulenc as a beautiful dream

"...at the Long Center Saturday night, the Austin Lyric Opera production will have just one degree of separation from..."

April 17, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

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

"...Bloodletting at the Opera What has already been a painful and troubling season..."

May 30, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Thank God It's Friday

UT grad Christian McLaughlin discusses Spyder Games, his MTV "soap opera on crack."

"...a bit of what transgressed on MTV's new soap opera Spyder Games the same day, as reported by MTV.com:..."

July 20, 2001 Screens Feature by Clay Smith

Carmen: Hot! Hot! Hot!!

Austin Lyric Opera's latest staging of Bizet's Carmen is such a refreshing and vivid presentation -- and at the City Coliseum, no less -- that this tale of a gypsy love-sorceress and her jealous soldier-lover should smolder in audiences' imaginations well after this production's last embers have flickered out.

"...and Spain the place for passion, then Georges Bizet's opera, sung in French and set in Seville around 1820,..."

May 25, 2001 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Articulations

Another Ballet Switch

"...executive development director Cookie Gregory Ruiz to the position. Opera Honor..."

June 13, 1997 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Austin's Classical Music Preview 'Tis the Season

I've written about the

"...(a living national treasure) and a new Philip Glass opera (La Belle et la Bete) simply has to be..."

Nov. 17, 1995 Arts Feature

A Hole in His Heart

Baritone Morgan Smith reveals how he becomes that lover we love to hate, Don Giovanni

"...The operatic dream team of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da..."

April 24, 2015 Arts Feature by Natalie Zeldin

Schlagobers and Blood!

In which your reporter hies himself to … the opera?

"...kind of celebrated, kind of dissed – Gaetano Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor, partly by having the Vienna production..."

Jan. 26, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Mr. Show Busy

Michael McKelvey's just a guy who cain't say no (to musicals)

"...was here or Chicago, and I turned down an opera at Northwestern to come here. I started out as..."

July 22, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Flight

Jonathan Dove's opera in an airport is often fun but leaves no lasting impression

"...Pulling off a modern opera can be tricky. With the traditional canon, there's already..."

April 15, 2011 Arts Review by Michael Kellerman

'Flight'

Composer Jonathan Dove explains how his opera set in an airport took off

"...transit. Okay, you're primed for the next Austin Lyric Opera production. Flight takes place in an airport terminal, where..."

April 8, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Maestro Prepares

Before the baton goes up, conductors have to know the score – every note of it

"...Orchestra, and Richard Buckley, principal conductor of Austin Lyric Opera, agree that the amount of prep time varies with..."

April 1, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Plump Jack

The cast of the UT opera theatre production of Plump Jack performs admirably, but the score and direction make the glorious rogue Falstaff just a drunken fat crook

"...Falstaff is hardly unknown to the world of opera. Aside from Verdi's comic masterpiece Falstaff, the beloved rogue..."

April 27, 2007 Arts Review by Iris Brooks

Unsung Hero

Behind the music of 'The Marriage of Figaro' is a man named Lorenzo da Ponte

"...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who wrote the music to the opera; and Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, who penned the controversial..."

April 29, 2005 Arts Feature by Dan Dietz

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