skip to main | skip to sidebar

Ionarts

SOMETHING OTHER THAN POLITICS
IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

5.2.07

Britten Operas on Ionarts

by Charles T. Downey | Monday, February 05, 2007

Benjamin Britten, composerBenjamin Britten (1913-1976)

Paul Bunyan (1941)
Production: Central City Opera
DVD:

Peter Grimes (1945)
Production: Santa Fe Opera | Metropolitan Opera
DVD:

The Rape of Lucretia (1946)
Production: Portland Opera | Peabody Chamber Opera | Châteauville Foundation
DVD: English National Opera

Albert Herring (1947)
Production: Catholic University
DVD:

The Beggar's Opera (adapted from John Gay, 1948)
Production: Châteauville Foundation
DVD:

The Little Sweep/Let's Make an Opera (1949)
Production:
DVD:

Billy Budd (1951)
Production: Washington National Opera | Santa Fe Opera
DVD: English National Opera

Gloriana (1953)
Production: Opera Theater of St. Louis
DVD: English National Opera

The Turn of the Screw (1954)
Productions: Mariinsky Theater | Châteauville Foundation
DVD:

Noye's Fludde (1957)
Production:
DVD:

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1960)
Productions: Glyndebourne | De Munt / Théâtre de la Monnaie
DVD: Glyndebourne | Robert Carsen

Curlew River (1967)
Production: Edinburgh Festival
DVD:

The Prodigal Son (1968)
Production:
DVD:

Owen Wingrave (1971)
Production:
DVD: Film by Margaret Williams

Death in Venice (1973)
Production: Glimmerglass
DVD:

The Burning Fiery Furnace (1979)
Production:
DVD:

 

Filed under Benjamin Britten, DVD Reviews, Opera

0 comments:

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

CONTRIBUTORS

  • Charles T. Downey, Moderator
  • Jens F. Laurson, Classical Music
  • Todd E. Babcock, Film
  • Mark Barry, Art (on Facebook)
  • Michael Lodico, Classical Music (on Facebook)

NEWSLETTER

To receive the weekly Ionarts Newsletter, send your e-mail address to ionarts at gmail dot com.

Creative Commons License

Ionarts is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

CONCERT CALENDAR

November | December | January
Small eye = recommended

November 28, 2009 (Sat)
8 pm
A Chanticleer Christmas
George Mason University Center for the Arts

November 29, 2009 (Sun)
4 pm
Elena Ulyanova, piano [FREE]
Phillips Collection

Small eye
November 29, 2009 (Sun)
6:30 pm
National Gallery Orchestra [FREE]
Music by Aikman, Bermel, Corigliano, Lerdahl
64th American Music Festival
National Gallery of Art

November 29, 2009 (Sun)
7 pm
Anonymous 4: The Cherry Tree
Friends of Music
Dumbarton Oaks

November 30, 2009 (Mon)
8 pm
Anonymous 4: The Cherry Tree
Friends of Music
Dumbarton Oaks

Small eye
December 1, 2009 (Tue)
12:10 pm
Noontime Cantata: Christen, ätzet diesen Tag, BWV 63 [FREE]
Washington Bach Consort
Church of the Epiphany

December 2, 2009 (Wed)
12:10 pm
Joel Fan, piano [FREE]
64th American Music Festival
National Gallery of Art

December 2, 2009 (Wed)
12:10 pm
Madrigal Singers from St. Alban's and NCS [FREE]
St. John's, Lafayette Square

Small eye
December 2, 2009 (Wed)
8 pm
Sonny Rollins
WPAS
Kennedy Center Concert Hall

Small eye
December 3, 2009 (Thu)
7 pm
National Symphony Orchestra
With Yuja Wang (premiere of Higdon piano concerto)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall

December 3, 2009 (Thu)
7:30 pm
Trio Solisti
Kennedy Center Terrace Theater

Small eye
December 3, 2009 (Thu)
8 pm
Angela Hewitt, piano
WPAS
Music Center at Strathmore

Small eye
December 3, 2009 (Thu)
8 pm
Nicolò Ceva, Trionfo per l'Assunzione della Santissima Vergine (1705)
Georgetown University
Wolfington Hall (Jesuit Residence)

Small eye
December 4, 2009 (Fri)
1:30 pm
National Symphony Orchestra
With Yuja Wang (premiere of Higdon piano concerto)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall

December 4, 2009 (Fri)
7:30 pm
Handel, M-Word
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Meyerhoff Symphony Hall (Baltimore, Md.)

December 4, 2009 (Fri)
7:30 pm
Handel, M-Word
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Meyerhoff Symphony Hall (Baltimore, Md.)

December 4, 2009 (Fri)
7:30 pm
Christmas Concert for Charity
Catholic University School of Music
National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

December 4, 2009 (Fri)
7:30 pm
Handel, M-Word
Washington National Cathedral

December 4, 2009 (Fri)
8 pm
St. Lawrence String Quartet [FREE]
Library of Congress

Small eye
December 4, 2009 (Fri)
8 pm
University of Maryland Symphony
Music by Strauss, Varèse, Rachmaninoff
Clarice Smith Center

December 4, 2009 (Fri)
8 pm
Donizetti, Daughter of the Regiment
Virginia Opera
George Mason University Center for the Arts

December 5, 2009 (Sat)
11 am
The Polar Express (children's concert)
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Meyerhoff Hall (Baltimore, Md.)

Small eye
December 5, 2009 (Sat)
2 pm
Plamena Mangova, piano
WPAS
Kennedy Center Terrace Theater

December 5, 2009 (Sat)
4 pm
Handel, M-Word
Washington National Cathedral

December 5, 2009 (Sat)
5 pm
21st Century Consort
Reynolds Center

December 5, 2009 (Sat)
7 pm
Georgetown University Concert Choir [FREE]
Dahlgren Chapel of the Sacred Heart, Georgetown University

December 5, 2009 (Sat)
7:30 pm
Great Noise Ensemble
Catholic University School of Music

Small eye
December 5, 2009 (Sat)
8 pm
National Symphony Orchestra
With Yuja Wang (premiere of Higdon piano concerto)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall

December 5, 2009 (Sat)
8 pm
Sinter Klass (music for St. Nicholas and Haydn anniversary)
Chantry with Modern Musick
St. Mary, Mother of God

December 6, 2009 (Sun)
2 pm
Donizetti, Daughter of the Regiment
Virginia Opera
George Mason University Center for the Arts

December 6, 2009 (Sun)
3 pm
Georgetown University Orchestra
All-Mozart program
Gaston Hall, Healy Building

December 6, 2009 (Sun)
3 pm
Piano Concert and Reception, with Audrey Andrist (guest artist) [FREE]
Piano Society of Greater Washington
Calvary Lutheran Church (Silver Spring, Md.)

December 6, 2009 (Sun)
4 pm
Bates and Friends Ensemble [FREE]
Phillips Collection

December 6, 2009 (Sun)
4 pm
Handel, M-Word
Washington National Cathedral

December 6, 2009 (Sun)
5:30 pm
Juilliard Quartet
Shriver Hall (Baltimore, Md.)

December 6, 2009 (Sun)
7 pm
Kennedy Center Honors
Honorees include Grace Bumbry
Kennedy Center Opera House

Small eye
December 6, 2009 (Sun)
6:30 pm
Jens Elvekjaer, piano [FREE]
National Gallery of Art

December 8, 2009 (Tue)
7:30 pm
Ray Chen, violin
Young Concert Artists
Kennedy Center Terrace Theater

Small eye
December 9, 2009 (Wed)
7:30 pm
Shanghai String Quartet [FREE]
Music by Penderecki, Beethoven, Debussy
Freer Gallery of Art

December 9, 2009 (Wed)
7:30 pm
New York City Ballet
Kennedy Center Opera House

REVIEWS

Concerts | CDs | Film | DVDs
Opera | Mahler | Proust
Britten | Art
Paris Reading Project

NEW RECORDINGS

Handel, Ode for Queen Anne / Dixit Dominus, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (October 13, 2009)
Schubert, Works for Violin and Piano, J. Fischer, M. Helmchen (September 29, 2009)
Matt Haimovitz, Figment (music by Carter, Sokolovic, Tremblay, inter alia) (September 29, 2009)
Lully, Atys, G. Laurens, Les Arts Florissants, W. Christie (September 8, 2009)
Four Centuries of Chant, Anonymous 4 (September 8, 2009)
Bach, Partitas 1/5/6, Murray Perahia (piano) (August 31, 2009)
Bernstein, Mass, J. Sykes, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, M. Alsop (August 25, 2009)
Adams, Doctor Atomic Symphony, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, D. Robertson (July 28, 2009)
Adès, The Tempest, S. Keenlyside, C. Sieden, Covent Garden, T. Adès (June 30, 2009)
Lang, Little Match Girl Passion, Theater of Voices, P. Hillier (June 9, 2009)
Kate Royal, Midsummer Night, ENO Orchestra, E. Gardner (June 2, 2009)
Handel, Ezio, A. Hallenberg, K. Gauvin, Il Complesso Barocco, A. Curtis (May 12, 2009)
Henry's Music, QuintEssential, A. Lawrence-King, Alamire, D. Skinner (May 1, 2009)
Chants d'Est, Sinfonia Varsovia, S. Wieder-Atherton (April 28, 2009)
R. H. Simonsen, Sy. 1/2, Overture in g, Israel Ynon / Sønderjylands SO (April 28, 2009)
Moniuszko, Masses, Wojnarowski / Warsaw Phil. Chorus (April 28, 2009)
Bach, Inventions and French Suite No. 5, Till Fellner (piano) (April 28, 2009)
Elina Garanča, Bel Canto, Filarmonica del TC di Bologna, R. Abbado (April 28, 2009)
Schumann, Frauenliebe und -leben, M.-N. Lemieux, D. Blumenthal (April 28, 2009)
Mahler, The Complete Symphonies, L. Bernstein (April 14, 2009)
Handel, Alcina, J. DiDonato, K. Gauvin, Il Complesso Barocco, A. Curtis (April 14, 2009)
Bach Arias, A. S. von Otter, Concerto Copenhagen (April 14, 2009)
M. Kožená, Songs My Mother Taught Me, M. Martineau (April 14, 2009)
Rolando Villazón, Handel, Gabrieli Players, P. McCreesh (March 31, 2009)
Bach, Mass in B Minor, Les Musiciens du Louvre • Grenoble, M. Minkowski (March 31, 2009)
Handel, "Great" Harpsichord Suites (vol. 1, 1720), J. Vinikour (March 31, 2009)
Brahms, Violin Concerto, V. Repin, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, R. Chailly (March 17, 2009)
Haydn, Die Jahreszeiten, Concentus Musicus Wien, N. Harnoncourt (March 17, 2009)
Cecilia Bartoli, La Danza: Melodie italiane, J. Levine (March 3, 2009)

NEW DVDs

Handel, Tamerlano, P. Domingo, Teatro Real de Madrid, P. McCreesh (April 28, 2009)
Janáček, The Cunning Little Vixen, Opéra national de Paris, D. R. Davies (April 28, 2009)
Brian Eno, Music for Airports, Bang on a Can All-Stars (directed by Frank Scheffer) (January 27, 2009)
Walter Felsenstein Edition (November 18, 2008)
Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker, H. Tomasson, San Francisco Ballet (November 18, 2008)
Adams, Doctor Atomic, G. Finley, De Nederlandse Opera, L. Renes (September 30, 2008)
Verdi, La Traviata, A. Gheorghiu, R. Vargas, La Scala, L. Maazel (September 30, 2008)
Mahler, Symphony No. 3, A. Larsson, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, C. Abbado (September 30, 2008)
Handel, Orlando, La Scintilla / Christie (September 30, 2008)
Britten, Peter Grimes, A. Dean Griffey, P. Racette, Metropolitan Opera, D. Runnicles (September 16, 2008)

WHAT WE COVER

  • Aaron Copland (9)
  • Alban Berg (9)
  • Alexander Scriabin (11)
  • Alexander Zemlinsky (4)
  • Alfred Schnittke (9)
  • Alfred Stieglitz (1)
  • Anton Bruckner (27)
  • Anton Webern (9)
  • Antonin Dvořák (13)
  • Antonio Vivaldi (33)
  • Architecture (25)
  • ARD Music Competition (30)
  • Arnold Bax (1)
  • Arnold Schoenberg (24)
  • Art (403)
  • August Enna (1)
  • Baltimore Symphony (73)
  • Beethoven Sonata Survey (8)
  • Benjamin Britten (45)
  • Benjamin C.S. Boyle (3)
  • Best of the Year (9)
  • Bohuslav Martinů (5)
  • Books (104)
  • BRSO (2)
  • Béla Bartók (27)
  • Calendar (115)
  • Carl Nielsen (8)
  • CD Reviews (517)
  • Chamber Music (56)
  • Charles Ives (11)
  • Christian Thielemann (13)
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck (7)
  • Châteauville Foundation (11)
  • Claude Debussy (30)
  • Claudio Monteverdi (18)
  • Concert Reviews (985)
  • Contemporary Music (80)
  • Corcoran (34)
  • César Franck (5)
  • Dance (25)
  • Dante in Siena (13)
  • David Diamond (1)
  • Dip Your Ears (102)
  • Dmitry Shostakovich (58)
  • Domenico Scarlatti (9)
  • Dumbarton Oaks (12)
  • DVD Reviews (77)
  • DW (1)
  • Early Music (189)
  • Edvard Grieg (2)
  • Edward Elgar (7)
  • Elliott Carter (24)
  • Embassy Series (21)
  • Emerson Quartet (13)
  • Eric Zeisl (1)
  • Erik Satie (1)
  • Evgeny Kissin (8)
  • Fazil Say (6)
  • Felix Mendelssohn (16)
  • Ferruccio Busoni (2)
  • Film (66)
  • Folger Consort (16)
  • Francesco Cavalli (4)
  • Francis Poulenc (12)
  • Frank Martin (2)
  • Franz Liszt (25)
  • Franz Schubert (30)
  • Freer Gallery (6)
  • Frédéric Chopin (43)
  • Gabriel Fauré (8)
  • Galleries (1)
  • Georg Philipp Telemann (3)
  • George Antheil (1)
  • George Frideric Handel (28)
  • Georgia O'Keeffe (1)
  • Gerald Finzi (2)
  • Gioachino Rossini (18)
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (4)
  • Giuseppe Verdi (30)
  • Gustav Mahler (60)
  • Györgi Ligeti (1)
  • György Kurtág (7)
  • Hans Pfitzner (2)
  • Hans Werner Henze (3)
  • Harman Center (2)
  • Hector Berlioz (2)
  • Henry Purcell (2)
  • Herman Maril (1)
  • Hugo Wolf (2)
  • Igor Stravinsky (7)
  • In Brief (140)
  • Interviews (8)
  • Ionarts at Large (146)
  • ionarts from Munich (105)
  • Ionarts from Vienna (1)
  • Isaac Albéniz (2)
  • Jacques Offenbach (2)
  • James MacMillan (2)
  • Jazz (15)
  • Jean Sibelius (20)
  • Jean-Baptiste Lully (9)
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau (15)
  • Jennifer Higdon (8)
  • jfl (518)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach (125)
  • Johannes Brahms (59)
  • John Adams (2)
  • John Dowland (10)
  • Joseph Haydn (42)
  • Juilliard Quartet (5)
  • Julius Reubke (1)
  • Kaija Saariaho (9)
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen (7)
  • Karol Szymanowski (3)
  • Kees Van Dogen (1)
  • kjk (1)
  • Krystof Penderecki (1)
  • Leos Janáček (8)
  • Library of Congress (63)
  • Luciano Berio (9)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven (101)
  • Martha Argerich (4)
  • Martin Puryear (1)
  • Maurice Ravel (25)
  • Max Bruch (2)
  • Metropolitan Opera (29)
  • Modest Musorgsky (6)
  • National Gallery of Art (84)
  • National Symphony (95)
  • News (687)
  • Olivier Messiaen (21)
  • Opera (555)
  • Opera Lafayette (17)
  • Paul Hindemith (4)
  • Philip Glass (16)
  • Pierre Boulez (14)
  • Proust (21)
  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky (27)
  • Ralph Vaughan-Williams (2)
  • Richard Danielpour (3)
  • Richard Strauss (38)
  • Richard Wagner (80)
  • RNNR (10)
  • Robert Schumann (29)
  • RRR (30)
  • Saints (26)
  • Santa Fe Opera (39)
  • Sergei Prokofiev (14)
  • Sergei Rachmaninov (14)
  • Shriver Hall (20)
  • Steve Reich (6)
  • Summer Festivals (10)
  • Takács Quartet (11)
  • Tan Dun (5)
  • The Chéreau Ring (4)
  • Vocal Arts Society (11)
  • Walters Art Museum (1)
  • Washington Bach Consort (12)
  • Washington Choral Arts Society (3)
  • Washington Concert Opera (10)
  • Washington National Opera (84)
  • Washington Post (65)
  • Whitney Museum (1)
  • Wolf Trap Opera (16)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (111)
  • World Premiere Performance (9)
  • WPAS (85)

DEVOTI NOSTRI

ARTS IN THE NEWS

Loading...

ARCHIVE

  • ►  2009 (502)
    • ►  November (38)
      • Tooth-Rotting Children's 'Nutcracker'
      • Viviane Hagner: Quiet Intensity
      • With Thanks for Bounty Given
      • H. C. Robbins Landon, 83
      • Vienna Chamber Orchestra
      • What Might Have Been: Riccardo Muti and the New Yo...
      • Philippe Jordan Gets Started in Paris
      • Andsnes and Rhode: Pictures Reframed
      • Merci, Jeanne-Claude
      • In Brief: And Music's Power Obey! Edition
      • The Lord Said
      • Sonia Wieder-Atherton Sings of the East
      • Reviewed, Not Necessarily Recommended: Symphonies ...
      • To Hear Tonight: Vogler Quartet
      • Alfred Brendel Speaks
      • Kennedy Center Chamber Players
      • François-Frédéric Guy Ascends the Mountain
      • In Brief: We Love Proust Edition
      • Ionarts-at-Large: Sibelius in San Francisco
      • Lang Lang and NSO
      • Opera Fit for a King
      • A Breath of Baroque Air
      • Berlin Philharmonic's Twelve Cellists
      • Apollo's Fire Has Fuel, Does Not Ignite
      • Fine Arts Quartet Plays It Close to the Chest
      • A Foundation with Art and Soul
      • American 'Ring' Cycle Comes to Surprising Conclusi...
      • Fatto, Matto, Quid Pro Quo
      • BSO's Stellar Mahler, with Mozart Comfort Food
      • In Brief
      • Ionarts-at-Large: Beethoven for Voices
      • The Ghost of Bernstein: Mahler 4
      • Cloudy Skies for Russian Stars
      • Susanna Phillips: Superlative
      • Lunch with Bach
      • Till Fellner's Beethoven Cycle, Part 4
      • Anne Truitt's Life as Color
      • In Brief: Le Toussaint Edition
    • ►  October (46)
      • Kubrick's Napoleon
      • Classical Month in Washington (January)
      • Ariadne in Washington
      • Renaud Capuçon Deals with Celebrity
      • This Fall at the NGA
      • Emma Kirkby at NGA
      • 21st Century Consort's Maw Retrospective
      • Art Seen Upstate
      • In Brief: End of October Edition
      • À mon chevet: Satori in Paris
      • Ionarts-at-Large: Gurrelieder Celebrate 60th Birth...
      • Savall's Latest Word on the Seven Last Words
    • ►  September (45)
    • ►  August (39)
    • ►  July (47)
    • ►  June (41)
    • ►  May (49)
    • ►  April (44)
    • ►  March (50)
    • ►  February (55)
    • ►  January (48)
  • ►  2008 (592)
    • ►  December (46)
    • ►  November (40)
    • ►  October (47)
    • ►  September (59)
    • ►  August (44)
    • ►  July (50)
    • ►  June (37)
    • ►  May (46)
    • ►  April (46)
    • ►  March (56)
    • ►  February (63)
    • ►  January (58)
  • ▼  2007 (635)
    • ►  December (55)
    • ►  November (56)
    • ►  October (64)
    • ►  September (53)
    • ►  August (41)
    • ►  July (36)
    • ►  June (39)
    • ►  May (54)
    • ►  April (51)
    • ►  March (58)
    • ▼  February (64)
      • Getting All Modern on Your Ass
      • New Main Maestro in Philadelphia while the NSO Kee...
      • Flórez's Breakthrough
      • Inexplicable Disappointment at Haefliger Recital
      • A Fair Wrap, with Pulse
      • Berlin Piano Quartet, Dumbarton Concerts
      • Hantaï Brothers and Friends, Library of Congress
      • James Conlon Happy in Los Angeles
      • Oscar Night 2007
      • Classical Month in Washington (May)
      • In Brief
      • Little Room at the Inn, Red Dot Fair, NYC
      • Scope, NYC
      • This Week in MP3
      • Genesis by Glass and Lanting
      • Janine Jansen with the NSO
      • The Armory Show
      • The Bolshoi's Cinderella a Gift of Wit
      • Jasper Johns, Four Themes
      • NGA American Music Festival, Part 1
      • Eugene Onegin Outshines his Colleagues at the MET
      • Cuarteto Casals at Dumbarton Oaks
      • The Jenůfa Year Continues
      • Light Surplants Shadow at Thibaudet Recital
      • Thomas Adès at Présences Festival
      • In Brief: Mid-February
      • Richard Goode. Very Goode.
      • New Works at the Hirshhorn
      • This Week in MP3: Snow Days
      • Double the Capuçon, Twice the Fun
      • Fav Five
      • We Lost a Great One
      • DVD: Katerina Izmailova
      • Atlantic String Quartet, Strathmore Mansion
      • Three Singers
      • Save the Butterflies!
      • Spectacular Roman Excavation in Nîmes
      • Till Fellner
      • Einar Røttingen Plays Tveitt
      • Film: Le Petit Lieutenant
      • Grammy Time
      • Oh, That Silly Agrippina
      • Washington National Opera Young Artists, Così Fan ...
      • In Brief
      • Two Nights of Shostakovich, Two Emerson String Qua...
      • This Week in MP3
      • Iván Fischer in Mendelssohn
      • Film: Blood Diamond
      • The Harrowing Beauty of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
      • Lully's Armide Sells out in Maryland
      • Rain to S, Is an ort, Stroina, Nisarot
      • Shostakovich String Quartet (Mini-) Cycle at the T...
      • The Minetti Quartet Returns
      • Dip Your Ears, No. 76
      • Britten Operas on Ionarts
      • Rape of Lucretia, Peabody Chamber Opera
      • Two Comedies of Errors
      • In Brief: It's February!
      • Gardiner's "Solomon" Remastered
      • Gian Carlo Menotti, 1911-2007
      • This Week in MP3
      • Classical Month in Washington (April)
      • Pittsburgh's New Emperor in Washington
      • Britten Operas on DVD, Part 4
    • ►  January (64)
  • ►  2006 (765)
    • ►  December (50)
    • ►  November (51)
    • ►  October (56)
    • ►  September (45)
    • ►  August (55)
    • ►  July (58)
    • ►  June (69)
    • ►  May (80)
    • ►  April (67)
    • ►  March (80)
    • ►  February (73)
    • ►  January (81)
  • ►  2005 (829)
    • ►  December (75)
    • ►  November (71)
    • ►  October (87)
    • ►  September (71)
    • ►  August (69)
    • ►  July (59)
    • ►  June (59)
    • ►  May (86)
    • ►  April (59)
    • ►  March (53)
    • ►  February (66)
    • ►  January (74)
  • ►  2004 (542)
    • ►  December (66)
    • ►  November (51)
    • ►  October (63)
    • ►  September (49)
    • ►  August (63)
    • ►  July (41)
    • ►  June (45)
    • ►  May (34)
    • ►  April (34)
    • ►  March (33)
    • ►  February (32)
    • ►  January (31)
  • ►  2003 (196)
    • ►  December (32)
    • ►  November (30)
    • ►  October (28)
    • ►  September (31)
    • ►  August (38)
    • ►  July (15)
    • ►  June (22)

EXHIBITS IN WASHINGTON

  • Anne Truitt: Perception and Reflection (Hirshoorn Museum, through January 3)
  • Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens (Phillips Collection, through January 10)
  • The Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain (National Gallery of Art, through November 29)
  • Judith Leyster, 1609–1660 (National Gallery of Art, through November 29)
  • Falnama: The Book of Omens (Sackler Gallery, through January 24)
  • Strange Bodies: Figurative Works from the Hirshhorn Collection (Hirshhorn Museum, through November 15)
  • Abraham Lincoln: The Final Casualty of War (National Museum of Health and Medicine)
  • BIG! -- 13-foot scroll of the Articles of Confederation (National Archives, through January 3, 2010)
  • Hall of Musical Instruments (National Museum of American History, permanent exhibition)
  • Dumbarton Oaks (open again after renovation, Tuesday through Sunday afternoons)
  • Kreeger Museum (building by Philip Johnson, open Tuesdays through Saturdays)
  • Department of Interior Museum (murals by Allan Hauser, permanent exhibition)
  • George Catlin, Indian Gallery (Renwick Gallery)
  • Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture

WHAT'S NEW IN BLOGVILLE

  • Parterre Box
    They’re right. We’re wrong.
    1 hour ago
  • Out West Arts
    A City of Two Tales
    3 hours ago
  • DCist
    Obamas At Smith Center For G.W. Basketball Game
    5 hours ago
  • 2 Blowhards
    Period-Quote or Quote-Period?
    9 hours ago
  • Whispers in the Loggia
    Cuenta Atrás el "Super Bowl"/Countdown to Guadalupe, '09 Edition
    9 hours ago
  • Oboeinsight
    Now THIS Is Weird!
    10 hours ago
  • Sequenza21/
    Talking with Jennifer Koh
    10 hours ago
  • Coloratur...aaah
    signs of life...
    10 hours ago
  • Boulezian
    Messiah, English National Opera, 27 November 2009
    15 hours ago
  • The Literary Saloon
    Literature in ... Macedonia
    21 hours ago
  • Cronaca
    Rhode Island's new tall ship
    23 hours ago
  • The Omniscient Mussel
    Review: Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra
    1 day ago
  • Languagehat
    THE HISTORY OF HELLO.
    1 day ago
  • The Artblog
    “Incarnational Aesthetics” in New York and Cool Conversations around Barkley Hendricks at PAFA
    1 day ago
  • Iron Tongue of Midnight
    C'mon, You Guys
    1 day ago
  • such stuff
    8335
    1 day ago
  • Jessica Duchen's classical music blog
    Friday Historical: Menuhin plays Brahms
    1 day ago
  • The Classical Beat
    In performance: Viviane Hagner; Enso Quartet
    1 day ago
  • Reel Fanatic
    My (and only my) best movies of the decade: The 2002 edition
    1 day ago
  • Amateur d'art
    Les images subversives : photographies surréalistes
    1 day ago
  • Today's Opera News
    REVIEW: Pratfalls at the Palace, Upstairs or Downstairs
    1 day ago
  • Prima la musica, poi le parole
    Various
    1 day ago
  • HurdAudio
    HurdAudio Rotation: Haywire and the Brain
    1 day ago
  • The Rambler
    Descriptions I wish I’d come up with
    2 days ago
  • From Beyond the Stave
    A Philadelphia Story
    2 days ago
  • Opéra Chanteuse
    Merci, Grazie, Gracias, Danke. . .
    2 days ago
  • NotionsCapital
    Obama Thanksgiving Pardon
    2 days ago
  • Marja-Leena Rathje
    Hornby's driftwood
    2 days ago
  • Sounds & Fury
    You Can Stop Writing Now (Administrative Note)
    3 days ago
  • Musical Perceptions
    Preparing for Advent
    3 days ago
  • Big Picture
    Obama le décideur
    3 days ago
  • San Francisco Classical Voice
    Bach Oratorio With the S.F. Symphony Chorus
    3 days ago
  • Tonic Blotter
    Dohnanyi and Lewis
    3 days ago
  • ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News
    Is Canada Prize Poised For A Reappearance?
    3 days ago
  • Edward Winkleman
    Five Things to Give Thanks For
    3 days ago
  • Le Moleskine sur la table
    Retraite
    3 days ago
  • Laila Lalami
    In Yosemite
    3 days ago
  • Waggish
    The Elitist's Credo
    3 days ago
  • Andrew Patner: The View from Here
    Lyric Opera of Chicago's 'Katya Kabanova' -- beautiful sadness; recalling Soderstrom
    4 days ago
  • Fredösphere
    4 days ago
  • Monotonous Forest
    Not for human hands
    4 days ago
  • The Elegant Variation
    HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY: THE INTERROGATIVE MOOD
    4 days ago
  • Notes from the Kelp
    Taking flight
    4 days ago
  • Dial "M" for Musicology
    All I Want For Chanuka
    4 days ago
  • The Detritus Review
    Shitty Review Redux
    5 days ago
  • Soho the Dog
    Glam compilation
    5 days ago
  • Yankeediva
    Breathing...
    6 days ago
  • Mysteries Abysmal
    Bernstein and Brahms
    1 week ago
  • Listen.
    In the long run,
    1 week ago
  • Thirteen Ways
    Most Audacious Itinerary Ever
    2 weeks ago
  • Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
    In praise of SeatGuru
    2 weeks ago
  • Anne-Carolyn Bird
    Success
    2 weeks ago
  • Night After Night
    M&Ms.
    3 weeks ago
  • Deceptively Simple
    Unwritten Works We Wish Had Been Written
    3 weeks ago
  • The Penitent Wagnerite
    "Wait a minute!"
    4 weeks ago
  • On a Pacific Aisle
    Half a Century
    4 weeks ago
  • The Dressing
    Cavalia: An Equine Love Affair
    2 months ago
  • Think Denk
    Missing me one place search another
    2 months ago
  • Superfluities Redux
  • wood s lot
Show 25 Show All