 | Grads of WNO's American Opera Initiative present original works at Kennedy Center Nov 21st 2012, 02:10 After the premiere of three one-act operas Monday evening, the composers and librettists gathered on the stage of the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater for a roundtable conversation, and they agreed on this: The key to success is simplifying, reducing, clarifying. The first graduating class of the Washington National Opera's new American Opera Initiative, which pairs young music theater professionals with seasoned veterans, garnered the invaluable experience of seeing firsthand how hard it is to do big things on a small scale. Read full article >>   | | Lydia Millet's "Magnificence" Nov 21st 2012, 01:40 Lydia Millet once complained that contemporary American fiction too often ignores "the world of the non-domesticated animal." No one will accuse her of doing that in her new novel, "Magnificence." The final book in a trilogy that began with "How the Dead Dream," it tells the story of Susan Lindley, a recent widow who inherits the home of her great-uncle. The kicker? The house is filled, basement to attic, with elaborate taxidermic animals that her uncle killed. Read full article >>   | |
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