109 stories by "Ray Mark Rinaldi"
Bette Midler has built her highly successful show business by recognizing that she's the best product she sells.
Daniel Witzke comes from the place where opera is going.The director of Opera Colorado's upcoming production of "The Magic Flute" has a career deeply rooted in musical theater.
The Metropolitan Opera's live HD broadcasts finish up the 2014-15 season with a crowd-pleaser.
There are a dozen good reasons to go see Central City Opera's production of "Dead Man Walking" and one good reason to hesitate.
The Santa Fe Opera always lines up one can't-miss moment each summer, a promising premiere or an unlikely resurrection that folks here build their annual classical music pilgrimage around.
Ken Cazan is having what you might fairly call his schizophrenic summer of 2014.In July, he directs Central City Opera's dark execution saga "Dead Man Walking.
"Dead Man Walking"Central City Opera, July 5-25 Jake Heggie's 2000 "Dead Man Walking" is the most important opera of the past 20 years, if only because it keeps getting performed in an era …
As a bit of American musical theater, "Chicago" gets away with murder. Not just because its main character, the narcissist with moxie named Roxie Hart, is acquitted for a killing she clearly
Opera returned to Denver last weekend after nearly a year off, and it was — as they say in the business — grand to have it back.
If you were going to reinvent dinner theater for the digital age, the first thing you'd do is get rid of the theater. Delete: singing Mormons. Insert: computer-generated animation, multichan…
There's a good measure of risk in nearly every event in the Newman Center Presents series.
There's plenty of blame to go around for the unfortunate problems of "Cinderella" and it has nothing to do with the cycle of family abuse the lead character is caught up in or the fact that
Six years ago, the Metropolitan Opera revolutionized the way opera is consumed when it began beaming its "Live in HD" performances to movie theaters across the country.
When it comes to Denver Arts Week, it's difficult to separate the happenings from the hype.
The Denver Art Museum mixes a rare bit of performance into its mission with this evening's presentation of "Casualties of Modernity" by Kent Monkman, an artist/activist of Cree descent whos…
Is it dance? Maybe. Is it music? Sometimes. Is it comedy or literature, classical or modern, high art or something a little bit lower? That all depends on your personal taste. These events d…
The Central City Opera is an old hand at entertaining the Colorado masses. The organization has been putting on shows old and new, traditional and adventurous, since 1932.
With a guy like Romeo, you already know how the relationship is going to end. Badly. But two Romeos?
These days the National Endowment for the Arts gives most of its $145 million in annual grants to groups, rather than individuals, that have proven track records in their communities.
"Becky Shaw" is the kind of play that reminds us why we go to theater in the first place: to see people who are just like us, only much more interesting. They've got our issues — relat…
Maybe the least flattering thing you can say about "American Idiot," with its indictment of Bush-era politics, is that it is kinder and gentler than you might expect. Punk rock on the Broadw…
The Denver Center Theatre Company continues its evolution into a significant developer of American plays with two new titles set to appear on its stages next season.
There's always good reason to be skeptical when a new play comes along recycling pop hits into a staged musical.
A lucky few — actually, a lucky 22 — people will get to sit in the front two rows of "American Idiot" when it plays in Denver starting next week.
