Author: Marc Shulgold
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Colorado gets a double dose of Lang Lang
Every few decades the stuffy classical music world is jolted awake by an exciting new face appearing out of nowhere. In the late ’50s it was a long, tall Texan named Van Cliburn, who became an American hero at a piano competition in Soviet Russia. More recently, it was a young Chinese man named Lang…
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The Roaring ’20s come to life in Colorado Ballet’s ‘Great Gatsby’
The vast second floor of Colorado Ballet’s headquarters was alive with dancers admiring themselves in full-length mirrors, the women garbed in their stunning pastel-colored flapper dresses, the men looking sharp in their tuxes. Everyone dressed for a wild night of Jazz Era champagne revelry. Instead, the occasion on this Wednesday afternoon was the first costumed…
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Opera Colorado’s new CEO has a reason to believe
Barbara Lynne Jamison is nobody’s fool. Stepping aboard the teetering ship known as Opera Colorado, she understood what challenges awaited on her arrival. Succeeding Greg Carpenter in the dual role of general director and CEO, she voiced a mixed message as she welcomed a recent visitor to company headquarters. Opera Colorado has an uphill financial…
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Conductor Peter Oundjian and the Colorado Symphony imagining new things
The Colorado Symphony has been looking younger and hipper in recent years. There are more youthful players in its ranks and, when you scan the musical offerings, there seems to be more rock. Big shows at Red Rocks. Even in Boettcher Concert Hall this season, there are guest shots from Bruce Hornsby and DeVotchKa –…
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Opera Colorado drops upcoming production; confirms leadership transition
A major budget shortfall has forced Opera Colorado to reduce its upcoming season from three mainstage productions to two, Marketing Director Jennifer Colgan said Thursday. She also confirmed that following the 2024-25 season, the company will have its first leadership transition in two decades. “The previously announced production of Verdi’s “Il trovatore” has been removed…
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For Ari Pelto, life is (in) the pits
Conductor will celebrate 10th year with Opera Colorado on Saturday
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DU curating dance legacy of Martha Graham
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Audiences have changed since legend’s death, and company is changing with them
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Central City Opera’s CEO makes sudden departure
Without explanation, Central City Opera on Thursday announced the unexpected exit of CEO and President Pamela Pantos in the midst of its summer season. An official statement simply stated that her relationship with the organization “has ended.” In the announcement, board Co-Chair Heather Miller wished the former mezzo-soprano “the best in her future endeavors.” Pantos…
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Central City Opera stages the other “Otello”
Seventy years before Verdi unveiled his immortal operatic treatment of Shakespeare’s “Othello,” another popular master of Italian opera had done the same – Rossini. And it was a hit … in 1816. Not so much these days. Ah, but here comes Central City Opera to revive this dramatic, tune-filled work. So where’s it been? Ashraf…
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Two composers honor Chautauqua’s 125th birthday
Opened in 1898 as part of the nationwide Chautauqua movement established by Texas schoolteachers to create extra summertime education opportunities for their ranks, Boulder’s Chautauqua Park and its spacious auditorium have since welcomed hikers, picnickers and concert-goers for a century-and-a-quarter. To open Sunday’s Colorado Music Festival concert in the auditorium, the hall’s 125th anniversary will…