REVIEW: Pounding St. John Passion (Lyric Opera of the North) Arts Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - October 15, 2017October 16, 2017 Jesus (Jarrett Ott) sprawls on the ground after a savage beating in LOON Opera's staged production of the St. John Passion. Illustration by Basil Considine. LOON Opera kicked off its 2017-2018 season on Saturday with Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion. Yes, you read that correctly – winter isn't anywhere close to officially
REVIEW: Brilliant Music, Inconsistent Tone in Don Pasquale (Minnesota Opera) Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre Visual Arts by Basil Considine - October 12, 2017June 24, 2018 Craig Colclough as the titular Pasquale in Minnesota Opera’s Don Pasquale. Photo by Dan Norman. Minnesota Opera's production of Don Pasquale, currently playing at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, is suffused with all the lovely music that you've come to know and expect, well-performed and a joy to hear. The updated
REVIEW: The Prices of War in The Crossing (Brooklyn Academy of Music) Arts Music Opera Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - October 8, 2017October 18, 2017 The cast of The Crossing. Photo by Richard Termine. For all its promise, Matthew Aucoin's opera The Crossing is not more than the sum of its parts. This opera is largely derived from and based on the Civil War poetry and letters of Walt Whitman; it premiered at the American Repertory Theatre in
INTERVIEW: Crystal Manich on Directing Tosca in Boston (Boston Lyric Opera) Arts Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - September 24, 2017September 25, 2017 Opera director Crystal Manich. Photo by Laura Marie Duncan Photography. Boston Lyric Opera's new production of Tosca, a co-production with Opera Omaha, opens October 13 at the historic Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston. Its director is Crystal Manich, a vibrant force in the world of opera stage directors. Over the last decade,
FEATURE/PREVIEW: The Tale of the Raucous Don Pasquale (Minnesota Opera) Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - September 16, 2017June 24, 2018 A scene from Arizona Opera's 2015 production of Don Pasquale. The same production design will be used in Minnesota Opera's upcoming production of the same opera. Photo by Ed Flores. For an opera that people thought was going to be a failure, Don Pasquale (1843) certainly has done very well for itself. Today,
EDITORIAL: On Lists and Awards Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre Visual Arts by Hanne Appelbaum - August 13, 2017August 14, 2017 A double photo collage of every show image from the 2017 Minnesota Fringe Festival. Some trivia: the decision to found the Twin Cities Arts Reader was made during the 2015 Minnesota Fringe Festival. It's only natural, then, that the festival was very much on the core leadership team's minds as we brainstormed about
Fringe File 2017, #5: The Money Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - July 18, 2017July 21, 2017 Our popular Fringe File series on the Minnesota Fringe Festival returns. Pictured: Max Wojtanowicz in a promotional photo for MN Fringe 2016's Ball: A Tribute to My Lost Testicle. A Fringe show may begin with the first glimmer of an idea or the drawing of its number, but its first incarnation ends with the money.
PREVIEW: National Puppetry Festival Arts Music Opera Theatre by Bev Wolfe - July 17, 2017July 17, 2017 Mousetrap Puppets' Punch and Judy features the classic comedy characters. Mousetrap Puppets' show and another Punch and Judy by Parasol Puppets play are free Saturday events, playing at 1:15 PM and 2:45 PM. This week features pageantry and puppets all week long at the National Puppetry Festival 2017 being held at Concordia University in St.
PHOTOS: A Mill City Summer Opera Retrospective Arts Music Opera Theatre Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 16, 2017July 15, 2017 Eric Morris as Beppe, Jill Gardner as Nedda, Richard Crawley as Canio, and Andrew Wilkowske as Tonio in the Mill City Summer Opera's inaugural 2012 production of Pagliacci at the Mill City Ruins. Mill City Summer Opera's latest summer extravaganza, María de Buenos Aires, is currently playing at The Machine Factory while
THE CURMUDGEON: Vol. 5 – The Five Sins of Publicity Photos Arts Dance Music Opera The Curmudgeon Theatre Visual Arts by Amy Donahue - July 15, 2017July 15, 2017 Photo by Markus Spiske. It happens to us all the time: someone submits a press kit or request for reviews, we're intrigued and thinking about possibilities – and find that the photos are just unsuitable for publication purposes. There are many different ways that this can happen, so here's a list