REVIEW: Twin Cities Fringe Opera’s Don Giovanni Arts Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - September 12, 2015September 12, 2015 In the composer Hector Berlioz's memoirs, he recounts traveling through Germany in the mid-19th century. Away from the refinement of Paris, he saw countless performances where the orchestra was fortified by the local military band, or a traveling opera company joined by members of the local music society in the pit. While
The Ivey Awards: What’s Growing at the State Theatre Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - September 10, 2015September 12, 2015 When the State Theatre opened on February 5, 1921, it was the largest theatre in Minneapolis – and, local journalists trumpeted, the most technologically advanced in the country. It featured a state-of-the-art air conditioning system (something the audience wouldn’t test out for several months, and were probably less excited after
10 Scene-Stealing Theatre Performances from 2014-2015 Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - September 9, 2015September 12, 2015 We asked the Twin Cities Daily Planet's Resident Classical Music and Drama Critic Basil Considine for a retrospective top 10 list of favorite shows from the 2014-2015 theatre season in the Twin Cities. Basil refused to play favorites, but offered this list of 10 scene-stealing performances, loosely construed and in no