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Austin Opera Terminates Buckley’s Contract
Artistic director said to have violated policy on harassment
Richard Buckley
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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
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Five Recommended Art Events This Weekend
How can you lose with a sweet list to use before it’s time to choose?
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Austin Opera’s Madame Butterfly
The company delivers a lovely staging of this Puccini opera that builds to a heartbreaking finale
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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
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Robert Faires’ Top 10 Classical Music / Dance Treasures of 2016
The richest work in dance and classical music this year ran the gamut from a dance in a backyard pool to an opera about Cold War brainwashing
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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
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Austin Opera to Mount Manchurian Candidate
Kevin Puts’ take on political thriller opens 2016-17 season
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Austin Opera’s Of Mice and Men
Artistic Director Richard Buckley on returning to the Carlisle Floyd opera that launched his conducting career
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Austin Opera’s Aida
This production of Verdi’s Egyptian tragedy delivers on the pomp and pageantry, but what makes the deepest impressions are the personal moments
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Top 10 Dance/Classical Music Treasures of 2014
It was a year in which the personal shone through in dance and classical works small and large
