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Carmen: The book, the opera, the sizzling seductress

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

DATE: Feb 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

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

Violinist Casey Reed finds fun in music, mentoring

One of the musicians performing this weekend with the San Juan Symphony Youth Orchestra is no stranger to the stage. Casey Reed has been playing violin since he was 5. Now a fres...

DATE: Nov 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Music

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

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

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

Quadrivium launches opera season in recital format

UUFD series opens Friday night

DATE: Sep 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Music

San Juan Symphony presents family concerts with ‘Peter and the Wolf’

“‘Peter and the Wolf’ is the perfect music to introduce classical music to the next generation,” said Thomas Heuser. Heuser is music director of the San Juan Symphony, our region...

DATE: Sep 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Music