Author - The Durango Herald

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

San Juan Symphony weaves magic of storytelling

A sultan, a faithless queen, emirs, wazirs, lords, grandees, pirates, carnivals and shipwrecks. A pair of star-crossed lovers. Beauty and the Beast. Tom Thumb. And, most of all, one very sma...

DATE: Feb 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

Merely Players brings ‘Doubt’ to Second Avenue

Theater company opens award-winning play at Durango Arts Center

DATE: Feb 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Quadrivium continues outreach with vocal music concerts in Durango, Bayfield

Animal lovers, rejoice: A concert just for you is on the immediate horizon. Titled “Wild Kingdom,” the concert will feature “music about all things that scurry, bound and fly,” sa...

DATE: Feb 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

Carmen: The book, the opera, the sizzling seductress

The MET Live in HD presents Bizet’s ‘Carmen’

DATE: Feb 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Music in the Mountains making a move

Annual event to leave venue at Purgatory

DATE: Jan 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

The Met’s ‘Adriana Lecouvreur’: A lesson in love triangles

When the real Adriana Lecouvreur died in Paris on March 30, 1730, she was only 37. Rumors spread that she had been poisoned by the Duchesse de Bouillon, her rival for the love of Maurice de ...

DATE: Jan 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

St. Mark’s boldly launches new year with flute quartets

Beauty, memory, wit light up January music calendar

DATE: Jan 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

Kids add music and drama to winter season

Underneath the commercial frenzy of the holiday season, a series of music and dramatic performances by the young people of our area have quietly proceeded. Last weekend, the thre...

DATE: Dec 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch