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11.19.2009 5:09 am

More on Opera Theatre’s “Brundibar”

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(Photos by Eric Woolsey)

(Photos by Eric Woolsey)

There wasn’t space in my review of Opera Theatre of St. Louis’s production of Brundibar to say everything that deserved to be said - so let me fill in some of the gaps here.

First, although critics really aren’t supposed…

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11.19.2009 5:07 am

OTSL: More on the Wexford Festival

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The ghosts aren't so scary; neither are the numbers

The ghosts aren't scary; neither are the numbers.

Ireland’s Wexford Festival, which is now in partnership with Opera Theatre of St. Louis, has released the figures for its 58th season - and they’re pretty heartening.

Wexford, a co-producer of OTSL’s production of…

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10.20.2009 1:17 pm

Classical music: taking off for London and Wexford, but…

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I’m taking off to accompany Opera Theatre of St. Louis’s Tim O’Leary and OTSL patrons (and no, the paper isn’t paying for it!) on their weeklong journey to London and Ireland’s Wexford Festival.

I’ll cover the events for the A&E section,…

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10.20.2009 1:08 pm

OTSL’s “Salome” opens in San Francisco; Christine Brewer’s recital

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(Ken Howard photo)

(Ken Howard photo)

Opera Theatre of St. Louis’ production of Richard Strauss’s Salome got a lot of attention last summer.

Now the production is open in San Francisco, and it’s getting even more. It has a new cast; from the sound of…

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10.11.2009 1:07 pm

OTSL: New director keeps Opera Theatre of St. Louis humming along

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Timothy O'Leary

O'Leary

(This doesn’t appear on the Arts & Books homepage, and it was hard to find on the STLToday.com website - so I’m reposting it here. Special bonus: A nice color photo of Tim O’Leary.)

New director keeps Opera Theatre of St.…
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10.08.2009 6:45 am

OTSL: Critical cheers elsewhere for Stephen Lord and James Robinson

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Stephen Lord

Stephen Lord

Opera Theatre of St. Louis music director Stephen Lord and artistic director James Robinson have both earned accolades in the news media recently.

Lord, conducting Verdi’s “Rigoletto” at London’s English National Opera, has garnered particularly enthusiastic review. The esteemed critic…

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08.31.2009 8:15 pm

CD Review: “Anna Karenina”

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(This didn’t make it onto the main “arts & books” page, so I’m putting it here for those who didn’t see the physical Sunday paper.)

‘Anna Karenina’ by David Carlson. Kelly Kaduce, Christine Abraham, Sarah Coburn, Rosalind Elias, Branson Jovanovich, Robert Gierlach,…

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07.24.2009 3:50 pm

Opera baby: OTSL’s O’Learys expect

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They’ve got the house and the yard; now Opera Theatre of St. Louis general director Timothy O’Leary and his wife, Kara, are expecting their first baby in mid-January.

Tim O’Leary says he found out during OTSL’s artists welcome party, when Kara…

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07.20.2009 12:48 pm

Richard Barger moves on from OTSL

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There have been numerous significant changes at Opera Theatre of St. Louis in the last year.  Here’s one didn’t make the headlines, but is still significant: Richard Barger, OTSL’s director of operations, has moved to New York and Santa Fe…

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07.07.2009 11:08 pm

OTSL, SLSO among local groups getting NEA grants

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Opera Theatre of St. Louis and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra are among the local arts groups which will each receive $50,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The grants are part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and…

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