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 contract..."

Feb. 1, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

A Night at the Opera

Jon Else's Sing Faster, showing this Wednesday as part of the Texas Documentary Tour, shows us opera Like we've never seen it before from the stagehands' perspective.

"...Sure, opera's an acquired taste; many find it hard to sit..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

This Fresh Squeeze Is All About the Opera Shorts

One Ounce Opera premieres a concert of new young composers

"...Yes, that’s Austin’s own One Ounce Opera. The ristretto-strength renegades who overdubbed Jackass: The Movie with..."

April 13, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

One Ounce Opera’s Fresh Squeezed Ounce of Opera II

Austin’s One Ounce Opera juices the night away

"...Austin's One Ounce Opera, not content with their gang of free-range goldenthroats staging..."

April 14, 2017 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

A Night at the Opera

Opera for dummies: Name one male tenor

"...marathon, but Saturday night, Oct. 30, settled springlike in San Francisco. On the eve of the city's annual Halloween..."

May 27, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

In the Shadow of the Stars

"...Directed by: Irving Saraf and Allie Light. Starring: The San Francisco Opera Chorus. Mention the world of opera and..."

June 5, 1992 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

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.

"...lungs and heart. It's an unlikely setting for an opera, even one that deals, as so many operas do,..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Arias From Death Row

In conjunction with its production of the opera Dead Man Walking, Austin Lyric Opera will present a seminar focusing on the unlikely journey of her story about providing spiritual counsel to a convicted murderer on death row to the operatic stage.

"...music and sung from the stages of the world's opera halls. And yet that's just what has happened; as..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Arts Feature 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.

"...Get Brad Dalton talking about the operatic version of A Streetcar Named Desire and pretty soon..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Final Flowering

With Cold Sassy Tree, distinguished composer Carlisle Floyd crafts an opera to crown his lengthy career.

"...of artistry and craft at work in this new opera by Carlisle Floyd. Character, atmosphere, mood, dramatic tension --..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

TV Eye

Independent Lens rolls out more standout docs

"...to recommend a film about the creation of an opera that's about the creation of the atomic bomb. However,..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

A Streetcar Named Desire

In Austin Lyric Opera's production of the opera A Streetcar Named Desire, director Brad Dalton and his design team translate the unsettled mental state of Blanche Dubois into literal elements of the setting, creating a distorted, exaggerated, haunted work.

"...And we shared them with her in Austin Lyric Opera's production of the opera of that name, adapted from..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

Austin museums want you, and Richard Buckley conducts in the Windy City

"...• Austin Lyric Opera artistic director Richard Buckley continues to be one busy..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

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

"...round the world -- in New York City, in San Francisco, in Chicago, in London, in Amsterdam, and, of..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

High Texas Rider

Before the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados, the Lone Star State's voice of the Vox organ, Augie Meyers, was San Antonio's Lord August & the Visions of Lite

"...Austin Chamber of Commerce," Meyers is the godfather of San Antonio rock, poster child for staying and playing on..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Fantastic Journey

Alejandro Escovedo comes full circle

"...County, Calif., where he grew up, to Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York. The focus centers on the..."

June 20, 2008 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

Ruling the Roost

Austin Preeminent Concert Promoter Ponders Retirement

"...over Castle Creek. In the Eighties, he owned and operated the Austin Opera House, while co-founding Star Tickets and..."

June 1, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

SXSW Music List 10

The Damned, 2 Chainz, War on Drugs, and 242 more added

"...Show Banga (San Francisco, Calif.)..."

March 6, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...sad day in Austin when they tear down the Opera House. Like the Armadillo, the Opera House was sacred..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Emailing Plácido Domingo

"...AC: I saw you perform Cyrano de Bergerac in San Francisco last year. This was my first opera as..."

May 27, 2011 Music Feature

SXSW Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...to the true blue classics, the Hong Kong Blood Opera serves up its punk rock hard and fast, still..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Let Him Entertain You

Why producer Charles Duggan is staging the biggest holiday spectacular Austin's ever seen

"...the Snowman (who melts), "O Holy Night" with an opera chorus, "Go Tell It on the Mountain" with a..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Art:

"...by Paul Jeremias, large-scale color images of theatre and opera, through Jan 14. Buffon's Histoire Naturelle: A Suite of..."

Dec. 22, 1995 Arts Feature

TV Eye

Summer TV used to mean boring reruns, but these days, cable takes advantage of the networks' hibernation to launch their own season of special movie events and series. Belinda Acosta offers a list of some of the upcoming "must check out" programs.

"...classic Tales of the City, first published in The San Francisco Chronicle in 1976 and aired on PBS in..."

May 18, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

SXSW’s Big Third List

YFN Lucci, Wyclef Jean, Ought, and 572 more

"...Aleman (Cabo San Lucas, Mexico)..."

Jan. 10, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Gay Culture in Focus

"...the festival's 10th anniversary event, he'd developed an unrealistically sanguine attitude about straight Austin's level of tolerance for queer..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Screens Feature by Russell Smith

Casting the Net

"...had had the idea to do a Web-based soap opera, and when the opportunity came, I hooked up with..."

June 18, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

"...Town, to Montreal, to Zurich. But not even the Susan Komen Breast Center at Baylor Hospital in Dallas was..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Column

Articulations

Getting Online With Art

"...most exclusive galleries. The esteemed Eleonore Austerer Gallery of San Francisco has invited area glass artists Jay von Koffler..."

Jan. 17, 1997 Arts Column

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...this review. Caruso (NYPD Blue, Kiss of Death) plays San Francisco detective David Corelli. When an aging socialite is..."

Oct. 20, 1995 News Feature

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