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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

Young musicians show what they’re made of in San Juan Symphony Youth Orchestra

Groups will play to perform in Bayfield and Durango

DATE: Nov 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Music

Strings attached

Young musicians to perform in Bayfield and Durango

DATE: Nov 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Pine River Times news

Choral Society celebrates holiday with traditional program

The winning request in Linda Mack Berven’s rolling City Market poll is the song “O Holy Night.” “People stop me in the aisle,” Mack Berven said. “People literally stop me all year...

DATE: Nov 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Music

The MET Live to screen encore performance of ‘Samson et Dalila’

Opera concentrates on love affair

DATE: Nov 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

A new festival begins in Durango

The Indigenous Arts Festival at Fort Lewis College is a new venture with high ambition. Billed as the first annual, the festival took place over last weekend and now has to follow through ne...

DATE: Nov 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Met goes to the movies with ‘Marnie’

Packed into the new opera “Marnie,” Freud, Jung, the #MeToo Movement and the conventions of psychological thrillers are all traveling companions. Co-commissioned by the Metropolit...

DATE: Nov 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Orchestra marks Bernstein Centennial – one more time

Big, double program this weekend

DATE: Nov 3, 2018 | CATEGORY: Music

Puccini mines U.S. Gold Rush in latest Met Live in HD

Giacomo Puccini’s “La Fanciulla del West” (“The Girl of the Golden West”) is a spaghetti opera filled with more clichés than a horse has flies. Based on a popular melodrama by American playw...

DATE: Oct 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Changes announced for MET Live in HD shows

On Oct. 13, the MET Live in HD officially began at Fort Lewis College. It was a so-called “encore” performance, not the originally scheduled live stream on Oct. 6, as schedule by the Met its...

DATE: Oct 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts