BYU Arts’ BAUCIS AND PHILEMON is sure to grow in your heart
PROVO — It’s not everyday you get a world premier of a new opera. It’s also not everyday that you get a new chamber opera with such unique elements as…
AMAHL and CHRISTMAS CAROL: a double dose of Xmas at The Grand
SALT LAKE CITY — The Grand Theatre’s holiday production is a two-for-one experience for audience members. The evening’s double-header consists of Amahl and the Night Visitors and Charles Dickens’ A…
Ancient and modern mix in PROTECTRESS, a work in progress
SALT LAKE CITY — Protectress (music by Jessica Rudman and libretto by Kendra Preston Leonard) falls into a category of art I am hereby dubbing “Barbie Art:” a piece of…
Utah Opera offers a simple, sublime LA BOHÈME
SALT LAKE CITY — Since it premiered in Turin, Italy in 1896, Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème has become the most popular opera ever composed. Its incredible music and universal messages…
OUR TOWN opera at UFOMT makes life worth living
LOGAN — The Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre presents the Utah premiere of Our Town, a three-act opera by composer Ned Rorem and librettist J. D. McClatchy adapted from…
Verdi’s AIDA triumphantly returns to the UFOMT stage in Logan
LOGAN — Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida has triumphantly marched into the Ellen Eccles Theatre at the Utah Festival of Opera and Musical Theatre in Logan. Directed by John de los Santos,…
UFOMT’s dazzling LOHENGRIN feels both familiar and new
LOGAN — All children are raised on fairy tales by the Grimm Brothers: tales of dark German forests, where princesses like Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty wait to be rescued by…
Opera Contempo’s TWICE THROUGH THE HEART is worth seeing — twice
SALT LAKE CITY — Twice Through The Heart (with music by Mark-Anthony Turnage and libretto adapted from a poem by Jackie Kay) is a very short (only thirty-five minutes) contemporary…
THE (R)EVOLUTION OF STEVE JOBS answers many questions, but leaves many, too
SALT LAKE CITY — If you’ve read the biography about Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs: A Biography by Walter Isaacson), or any of the numerous films and documentaries about him, then…
Waltz the night away with THE MERRY WIDOW at BYU
PROVO — BYU’s production of The Merry Widow is that rare thing: an opera with mass appeal. Music lovers will relish the expertly performed score. Newcomers to opera will appreciate…