Tuesday night’s performance will be, in its own way, a pas de deux. The Charlotte Ballet, under the direction of its outgoing artistic director, Jean-Pierre
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And the award for best director goes to … At 5 and 7 p.m. Tuesday in Smith Wilkes Hall, the Chautauqua Opera Company will hold
Poet Marjorie Maddox is interested in how people cope during times of crisis and calm, particularly when it comes to writing. Maddox is Week Three’s
Malcolm Bilson plays music the way 18th-century composers intended. The fortepiano expert plays on pianos modeled after the instruments composers such as Haydn, Mozart and
Sangram Majumdar talks about paintings like C.S. Lewis wrote about wardrobes – as if whole worlds are waiting within them. “That world continues, beyond the
Behind every great orchestra is a great conductor – and behind him, is a great conducting fellow. “The conducting fellowship has been a wonderful arrangement,”
The term “acropolis” conjures up the image of an ancient Greek city on a hill walled off from its surroundings. Yet the Akropolis Reed Quintet,
Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo of 1607 is not literally the first opera ever composed, but it certainly is the first one that is still performed, studied,
The images in First Aid manuals and airline emergency instruction cards don’t immediately bring to mind the art of tapestry, but that is where Erika
The only thing that’s changed is everything. “It’s completely different, but exactly the same,” said baritone Daniel Belcher. At 8:15 p.m. Saturday in the Amphitheater,
Throughout his entire career with Charlotte Ballet (formerly North Carolina Dance Theatre), first as a principal dancer for eight years beginning in 2003, then as
Who: Emily Daly, 24, Chautauqua Theater Company conservatory actor. Right now, Emily is performing as Poppy in CTC’s season opener Noises Off. She will also
Who: Jennifer Apple, 28, Chautauqua Theater Company conservatory actor. This summer, she’ll be seen as Caroline in Detroit ’67 and Lady Capulet in Romeo &
Who: Amelia Bransky, 25, the scenic fellow with the CTC conservatory. She assisted scenic designer Tom Buderwitz on CTC’s season opener, Noises Off, and will
This year’s Authors Among Us book fair will be the first under the Chautauqua Literary Arts Friends’ new president, Norma Rees. “I’m really doing it
Week Three at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center features two returning writers-in-residence, Marjorie Maddox and Jonathan Eig. Maddox will serve as poet-in-residence, and Eig will serve