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The Festival Tent was filled to the brim for the closing concert of the inaugural Castleton Festival , by the Castleton Festival Orchestra. ...

(L to R) Jennifer Check (Lady Billows), Benjamin Bloomfield (Superintendent Budd), Ashleigh Semkiw (Miss Wordsworth), Tyler S. Nelson (Mr. ...

Read my review in the print edition of today's Washington Post : Charles T. Downey, 'Lucretia': Death and Depravity, Well Sung W...

As part of the opening weekend celebration of the Castleton Festival , Lorin Maazel and Dietlinde Turban-Maazel welcomed the public to the...

Donald Groves (Filch) and Melissa Parks (Mrs. Peachum) in The Beggar's Opera , Châteauville Foundation (photo by Nicholas Vaughan) The s...

(L to R) Harry Risoleo (Miles), Rachel Calloway (Mrs. Grose), Charlotte Dobbs (the Governess), and Kirby Anne Hall (Flora) in The Turn of t...

Lorin Maazel, conductor Saturday evening, Lorin Maazel led an “in-house” production of Britten’s The Beggar’s Opera , adapted from the orig...

Tokyo String Quartet, photo by Peter Checchia Lorin and Dietlinde Maazel hosted the 10th anniversary celebration of the Theater House on th...

The critical failure of Lorin Maazel's partially self-financed opera, 1984 , was quite a fiasco. Another project funded by Maazel and hi...

You may recall the strong reviews Jens and I wrote about the production of Britten's The Turn of the Screw last spring. It was the wor...

B. Britten, The Turn of the Screw , Britten / Pears, Vyvyan B. Britten, The Turn of the Screw , Harding / Bostridge, Rodgers B. Britten, The...