24 stories by "Ray Mark Rinaldi Denver Post Fine Arts Critic"
New operas can scare you for all the wrong reasons. You worry that the sets will malfunction, or the singers.
"Alice (in Wonderland) is a big, colorful acid trip of a ballet, a welcome update of Lewis Carroll's classic tale that aims to meet the action-packed expectations of contemporary audiences.
Semantically speaking, opera-goers fall into two distinct categories. About half say they go to "hear" opera. The rest prefer to say they go "see" it.
Opera is set up for the safe bet — for commodities as sure and sound as Mozart and Verdi — and suddenly that's wholly inconvenient.
The Lyric Opera couldn't have known five years ago, when it started planning "Bel Canto," that terrorism would be the hottest topic in America the very week the work would premiere.
Arts groups crash but they rarely burn. We see it all the time: a financial crisis, a plea for help and a comeback.
To be a great arts organization you have to produce great art. First. You have to put on the kind of shows that win hearts and change lives, that make people comfortable and then make them
Opera Colorado began its Saturday performance of "Aida" with some victorious news, then followed that up with a winning show.
Alexandra LoBianco is the kind of soprano the opera world adores. She has a big voice and a good attitude.
"Great Scott" is an opera about every beastly thing about opera, so it is possible the work's inventors meant to create a beast.
The SCFD board of directors Thursday took a step toward ending the debate over how public arts funding should be distributed in the region Thursday, reaffirming a plan it previously approved…
There are only two bits of good advice you need in regard to Nathan Hall's "Ghost Light" currently playing at Boettcher Concert Hall.
For a quarter century, there have been two distinct — and separate — fine arts scenes in Colorado.
The musical adaptation of "Cold Mountain" arrived at the Santa Fe Opera Saturday night with all of the expectations a very good idea provokes.
What every great soprano needs most is infrastructure. No Brünnhilde hits her high notes without the serious support system that got her up there: the vocal coaches and wigmakers; the …
The classical arts connect the dots for every culture. The great operas, symphonies, stories, plays and dances last beyond the eras of the artists who create them, crossing generations, con…
The classical arts connect the dots for every culture. The great operas, symphonies, stories, plays, dances - they last beyond the eras of the artists who create them, crossing generations,…
Another year, another strategy for the Central City Opera. At least that's how it can feel for the company's long-time patrons.
This offbeat evening offers some unusual pairings. The traditional Boulder Opera joins with the adventurous Opera on Tap for a program that combines Act I of Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte" and Ac…
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.
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
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
