by Bob Bows, Colorado Drama [Original article here] Just as Giacomo Puccini fell in love with the gold rush days of the mid-nineteenth century American “Wild West” (La fanciulla del West), Americans love to romanticize post-World War II Italy, as we see in...
by David Marlowe, Marlowe’s Musings [Original article here] Based upon the 1960 novella by Elizabeth Spencer and the 1960 film that starred Olivia de Havilland, “The Light in the Piazza, the Musical,” has music and lyrics by Adam Guettel and book by Craig...
By Kelly Dean Hansen, Ph.D., Freelance Classical Music Writer, Photos by Amanda Tipton The weather was perfect on Saturday evening, July 10, as Central City Opera premiered the second of its mainstage productions in the open-air setting of Hudson Gardens in...
By Kelly Dean Hansen, Ph.D., Freelance Classical Music Writer, photos by Amanda Tipton While the world emerges from a global pandemic, the performing arts are, as had been predicted, among the very last and most gradual aspects of life to return to the “normal”...
