Grand RapidsBalletbasking in glow of St. Louis debut at Spring to Dance Festival
MLive.com
Parsons' contemporaryballet, choreographed to music of Gioachino Rossini, was called “ingenious” by The New York Times after its 1984 premiere for its hilarious commentary on a faceless, nameless bureaucracy, seen from the perspective of an envelope …

Killer Plants Take Over Brooklyn Garden forOpera:Music
Bloomberg
In “Rappaccini's Daughter,” a crazy botanist locks up his daughter in a garden with poisonous plants. The story by Nathaniel Hawthorne inspired anoperaby Daniel Catan, a Mexican master of melancholy, who died unexpectedly two years ago after…

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CincyBallet'sBlackburn was mentor to Sarah Jessica Parker, others
Cincinnati.com (blog)
David Blackburn, a former dancer and associate artistic director of the CincinnatiBalletand mentor generations of local dancers, died Saturday (June 15) in the hospice unit at UC Drake Center in Hartwell. Blackburn was 76, and had been treated for…

Terence Blanchard Turns A Tragic Champion Into AnOperaHero
NPR
Blanchard says much of themusicin Champion was written to evoke the deep thinking that often follows physical and emotional injury. “All of these arias are very personal moments; to me, they speak to that moment in everyone's life when you have…
Boxing tragedy inspires Blanchard's firstoperaHouston Chronicle
OperaTheatre Of Saint Louis Premieres Terence Blanchard's 'Champion'St. Louis Public Radio

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Jim Doyle leaps into theballetscene with fog effects for 'Azimuth'
Los Angeles Times
This is the demonstration and testing lab at the L.A. headquarters of WET, a design firm where Doyle, who just finished a new fog effect for an upcoming Los Angelesballet, has helped create some of the most ambitious and lavish water displays in the…

Review:Musicis star of CincyOpera's'Don Giovanni'
Cincinnati.com
An excellent cast and memorable singing overcame an uneven production of Mozart's “Don Giovanni,” which opened CincinnatiOpera's93rd season Thursday night inMusicHall. Don Giovanni, played by Lucas Meachem, at first came across as a suave, not …

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BalletTech Performs at the Joyce Theater
New York Times
“BalletTech is about dancing, and dancing, and opportunity, and children, and dancing,” the choreographer Eliot Feld said on Thursday. He spoke as Kids Dance, the performing arm of the New York City Public School for Dance, a school for fourth through …

ClassicalMusicandOperaListings for June 14-20
New York Times
Opera. 'La Hija de Rappaccini' (Monday and June 24) A jealous father keeps his daughter locked up in a garden filled with poisonous plants: although immune to them herself, she becomes venomous to her suitors. The play by the Nobel Prize winner Octavio …

AmericanBalletTheater Names NewBalletMaster
New York Times (blog)
As a repetiteur, he has staged works at AmericanBalletTheater, BolshoiBallet, BostonBallet, Birmingham RoyalBalletand CorellaBalletCastilla y Leon, among others. In 2008, Roberts was the assistant choreographer for Ms. Tharp's “Rabbit and Rogue…

Romance, cynicism, fun at SFOpera's'Cosi fan tutte'
San Francisco Examiner
'Cosi fan tutte” boasts a rare combination: It is a hilarious romp and has gorgeousmusic. Mozart's beloved 1790opera—the Italian title literally translates to “Thus do all,” but also can be rendered as “They all do it” — has returned to the War…