The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD–Handel’s Agrippina Saturday, February 29th
By Norm Robins Henry Kissinger once said, “Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.” If that’s true this is one of the
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The Bolshoi in Cinema—Swan Lake
~By Norm Robins~ The Bolshoi Ballet continues this season of classics with Swan Lake. Composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in
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The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD Series continues with the Gershwins’ immortal Porgy and Bess – Saturday, February 1 at 9:55 am
~By Lynn Gray, Ph.D.~ The supremely American folk opera, Porgy and Bess, has been playing to packed houses at the
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Maestro Nicholas Carthy Interview.
Maestro Carthy will conduct the Reno Chamber Orchestra on Saturday and Sunday, January 25th and 26th. He was born in England in 1957 and studied music there. In 1981 he won an Austrian government scholarship to study at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. After he finished his studies he was appointed Kapellmeister at the Landestheater in Salzburg. He has worked with such famous conductors as Daniel Barenboim and Sir George Solti. He has been a music director of the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana in Switzerland and is currently a professor of music and opera at the University of Colorado and is a visiting tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England.
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Maestro Nicholas Carthy Conducts The Reno Chamber Orchestra
By Norm Robins Maestro Carthy will conduct the Reno Chamber Orchestra on Saturday and Sunday, January 25th and 26th. He
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The Bolshoi in Cinema—Giselle
By Norm Robins This season the Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema is continuing its classics including Giselle, a standard beloved over
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Backstage Review—Take Five II at Brüka Theater
Take Five was performed Friday and Saturday nights, January 12 and 13, 2020, and what a couple of nights they were. It seemed like all the artistic talent in Northern Nevada lined up to help Brüka with its second annual Take Five fundraiser.
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Pelish’s Gold Mine—Nuggets from Film History The Ox-Bow Incident
By Randy Pelish Director William Wellman routinely made great films. Beginning in the silent era his Wings won the first
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The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD Series – First 2020 Performance – WOZZECK, January 11 at 9:55 am
We begin the new year with Alban Berg’s brutal 20th century tragedy, Wozzeck. The libretto, by Berg himself, is based
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Note-Able Music Therapy Services performed at Sierra Arts.
Last Tuesday the Note-Able Music Therapy Services performed at Sierra Arts.Here is a video that will tell you more about this wonderful music
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