Tag: Francesca Zambello

The topical parallels between the narrative of this work and what is happening in the United States today are both deft and poignant. By GREGORY FORD

Washington National Opera samples composer Richard Wagner’s greatest hits. By WILLIAM POWELL

A stunningly effective mixture of all the elements that make opera worth attending.

The Kennedy Center’s artistic directorial staff defended their calculus for choosing their collective 2019-2020 classical-music season during a media briefing and panel discussion earlier...

Opera in America has had the stink of death upon it for some time now. Lavish productions of period piece love stories and power...

Growing up in Southeast DC, Soloman Howard had a godfather who saw to it that the young singer’s obvious basso gift did not languish...

Washington National Opera concludes its 2017-2018 season with a fresh production of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide directed by Washington National Opera’s Artistic Director Francesca Zambello. If...

Eternal, romantic love conquers all -- even a jealous rival -- in Verdi’s ravishingly melodic Aida, now being presented by the Washington National Opera...

It is certainly a “Dark Night of the Soul” (St. John of the Cross) for Sister Helen Prejean in the contemporary opera Dead Man...

Mother Earth is crying in despair and degradation in Director Francesca Zambella’s audaciously brilliant interpretation of the final opera of Wagner’s artistically magnificent Ring...

Love in all of its many manifestations runs rampant throughout the Washington National Opera’s most recent offering in the continuing tale of The Ring...

German composer Richard Wagner’s much heralded and talked about (over the past many decades!) Ring Cycle opened at The Kennedy Center Opera House on...

Appomattox, the world premiere opera now playing at The Kennedy Center Opera House in a new production by the Washington National Opera, tackles that...

In the wake of Ferguson and the Black Lives Matter movement, it is the perfect time for an opera which tells the truth about...

Oh, the tears, trauma and travail of the issues brought to the fore in the revised World Premiere of the opera Appomattox at the...

Mezzo-soprano Magdalena Wór pretty much creates an unforgettable impression everywhere she performs. Her strikingly rich voice – it’s been called “plush,” “chocolatey” and other...

The Washington National Opera takes to the seas for Richard Wagner’s first major work, The Flying Dutchman (Der Fliegende Holländer). WNO Artistic Director Francesca Zambello has...

A penetrating and extremely lucid psychological austerity permeates the current production of the Washington National Opera’s (WNO) Dialogues of the Carmelites by composer and...

The world premier for the Washington National Opera’s newest American Opera Initiative takes a new look at the power of music in the touching,...

If you saw a drawing of a lumpy hat, would you assume it was just that? As an adult, you might. In the Kennedy...