Music in the Mountains: Fairy tales, French horns and a Spanish fantasy
Romantic-era musical immersion on Sunday
DATE: Jul 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music
A new beginning for Music in the Mountains
Festival will launch 33rd season July 6
DATE: Jun 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music
Dennis Elkins will bring mesmerizing solo show to Durango Arts Center
Dennis Elkins, the popular Fort Lewis College professor and former chairman of the Drama Department, is coming back to town with his solo show: ‘box.”
Autobiographical in nature, ...
DATE: May 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
MET Opera based on true story from French Revolution to be screened
Paris, July, 1794: “Today, 40 individuals had their heads cut off, including 16 Carmélite nuns from Compiègne.”
That brief, contemporaneous note about a mass execution during the ...
DATE: May 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Merely Players conjures super dreamtime with ‘Mama Mia!’
Production is high on energy, color and fantasy
DATE: May 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Recital sends musical postcards from around the world
3rd Ave. Arts to conclude winter music season Friday
DATE: Apr 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music
Youth Orchestra to perform in Durango, Bayfield
Concerto winner and a premiere on ambitious program
DATE: Apr 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music
Durango Arts Center presents ‘Lion King Jr.’
Lions and tigers and buzzards, zebras, giraffes, gazelles, elephants, wildebeests, macaws, tree frogs, field mice and fireflies.
That’s a selection of the animals, birds and inse...
DATE: Apr 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Fort Lewis College stages a rousing New York musical
“Bigger than a Buick.”
That’s a line from “My Favorite Year,” the Dougherty-Flaherty-Ahrens musical running through this weekend at Fort Lewis College. It’s repeated more than on...
DATE: Mar 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Fort Lewis stages feel-good musical comedy
For Benjy Stone, 1954 was “My Favorite Year.” As he makes clear, “not the best year, but my favorite.”
For the 1992 Broadway musical of the same title, the distinction between bes...
DATE: Mar 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Musical master Bach to be celebrated St. Mark’s
Of course, the poster child for the Durango Bach Festival is none other than the Baroque composer himself. A stylized four-part graphic illuminates the festival’s website and brochures. A hu...
DATE: Mar 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch
The MET to time-travel to World War I with ‘Daughter of the Regiment’
There are four reasons to see Saturday’s MET Live in HD performance of Donizetti’s “Daughter of the Regiment” – (and one not to).
Donizetti’s 1840 comedic opera, “The Daughter...
DATE: Mar 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
