The Dressing
Poet Karren LaLonde Alenier, as the Dresser, addresses what's underneath the art.
Archives
2013.04.23:
Paul's Case: Intersection of Minimalism and Baroque
2013.02.01:
Estelle Glaser Laughlin's Way out of Darkness
2012.12.22:
Strolling with the Folger Consort & Trio EOS
2012.12.19:
Faust: Looking for a Second Chance
2012.11.23:
Birthing New Opera in the Nation's Capital
2012.11.13:
Conference of the Birds--An Oasis from the Hubbub
2012.11.03:
Poetry Taken to Other Levels
2012.09.19:
The Power of Anna Bolena
2012.08.05:
Mad over Wolf Trap's The Rake's Progress
2012.07.27:
Michael Oberhauser's Fallen Angels
2012.07.22:
Andrew Simpson's Outcasts, an Opera
2012.06.29:
Turn on New Lights: Bach Opens for Moravec
2012.06.15:
The Black & White of Memphis
2012.05.30:
Joan Miró: Art in the Service of Mankind
2012.04.24:
Argento Retrospective: The Singing that Fills
2012.03.29:
Split This Rock, Poems That Count, Days 3 & 4
2012.03.25:
Split This Rock: Poetry as Protest, Day 2
2012.03.23:
Split This Rock: A Sold Out Event, Day 1
2012.03.23:
Conrad Cummings / Michael Korie Opera Premieres April 2012
2012.03.21:
Violinist James Stern Recites Eliot's "The Waste Land"
2012.03.16:
Stealing the Body: Gypsies from the Katona József Theater
2012.02.27:
Bending the Rules of Dance: Twyla Tharp Vs. Eiko & Koma
2012.02.21:
Opening the Wells of Mugham & Turkish Music
2012.02.17:
e-Geaux [beta] & TWT Slam--Where Advertising Meets Poetry
2012.02.14:
Orphée--A Love Story to Dismember Forever
2012.01.07:
D. J. Sparr on Guitar
2011.12.05:
Synetic's Romeo and Juliet: kettle-of-fish-that-turned-your-heart
2011.11.20:
Honegger's Woman Joan, a "Pretty Candle"?
2011.11.11:
Lucia di Lammermoor, Girl Toy
2011.11.09:
Answering Questions about Charles Ives
2011.10.28:
Getting out of The Box after the quake
2011.10.22:
Lost in Translation: Plays by Lee Breuer and by Alan Bennett
2011.10.07:
Synetic Theater: Physical But Wordless Shakespeare
2011.10.03:
Nellie McKay & Madeleine Peyroux: Don't Pick Fights with Poets
2011.09.15:
Feeling Exposed: DC Shorts Dark Side
2011.09.12:
When Verdi's Attila Met Odabella...
2011.09.05:
Houston, We've Got a Problem--A new War Opera
2011.08.11:
DC Shorts: inviting the Community to Participate
2011.08.09:
Hoffmann's Sirens
2011.07.24:
F-ing Up: The Junk Versus The Good Stuff
2011.07.14:
Gallantry: A Code Blue Capital Fringe Emergency
2011.06.22:
Lost & Found Items at 2011 Source Festival
2011.06.12:
What Mattered at the first Dramatists Guild Conference
2011.05.29:
On the Beat Trail with Bill Morgan
2011.05.17:
Angel of the Amazon: A New Music Drama
2011.04.30:
Showdown with The Inspector
2011.04.11:
A Trip into the Minotaur's Maze Circa 1920, Chicago
2011.04.11:
Uniting Heaven & Earth: Violinist Brings New Classical Music to Rural PA
2011.04.06:
U MD Preview: Fortune's Bones & More
2011.04.03:
Ricky Ian Gordon: Lost Loves
2011.03.04:
From Firewheel: When Is a Book Not a Book?
2011.02.20:
The Thoughtful Premiere of "Five Episodes"
2011.02.01:
The Arabian NIghts -- Then & Now
2011.01.17:
UrbanArias: New Opera for a Young Audience
2010.12.19:
Creating New Truths Out of Old Lies
2010.11.22:
Synetic's Essential Master and Margarita
2010.11.04:
Howl: Absorbing Poetry Through Film
2010.10.27:
Young Jean Lee's Broken World
2010.10.25:
When Maybelline Left Chuck Berry
2010.10.08:
A Feast of Luminaries: Poet Laureates at the Library of Congress
2010.10.04:
Opera in a Pocket
2010.09.30:
Striking a Chinese Conversation
2010.09.04:
Agora: Yet Another Brother
2010.08.30:
Photos of the Beat Poet, Allen Ginsberg
2010.08.16:
Complementing the Genius of A Midsummer's Night Dream
2010.07.26:
Padrevia, Heart in a Bloody Cup
2010.07.24:
Howling in the Nation's Capital
2010.06.05:
The Supernatural Energy of The Ramayana
2010.05.18:
Scored with Serranos and Limes: A Master Class
2010.05.08:
Hunting the Art in Things Picasso
2010.04.21:
Shadowboxer: Joe Louis Fights His Ghosts
2010.04.15:
The Exceptional Heroines of Barbara Quick
2010.04.10:
Slide: What Is Out of Focus
2010.03.26:
Watch Out for Those Island Getaways
2010.03.16:
Marin Alsop's High-Wire Concert
2010.03.14:
Splitting Rocks in China & Writing in the Dark
2010.03.11:
Split This Rock: Looking for Peace
2010.03.11:
The Syntax of Split This Rock 2010
2010.02.07:
The Terra Cotta War Against Death
2010.01.23:
The Ars Poetica of Chinese Dance Theater
2010.01.14:
Full Moon on Poetry: 120 Plus 10
2010.01.10:
The Tenderness of Dennis Brutus (1924-2009)
2010.01.09:
Monteverdi Call and Response
2009.09.26:
Cavalia: An Equine Love Affair
2009.09.23:
Aviva Kempner's Woman of Principle: Gertrude Berg
2009.09.19:
Verge Ensemble: The Pleasure of Listening
2009.09.04:
A Blue Ribbon for Julie & Julia
2009.07.29:
New Opera: Then the Hammer Explained
2009.07.22:
Fade: State of the Art Versus Green
2009.07.21:
The Beggar's Opera: Maazel's Own Brand of Mendicants
2009.05.28:
Finding the Chinese in Turandot
2009.03.31:
In the Realm of Silent Film and Dreams--Snark Ensemble, Terry Riley
2009.03.07:
Exploring the Côte D'azur with Henri Matisse and Friends
2009.02.27:
Kaspar Hauser: Opera for the Full Body
2009.02.24:
A Scandal in Bohemia, Chinatown & Elsewhere
2009.01.31:
Redeeming The Deserter
2009.01.22:
Playing the Hydrogen Jukebox
2008.12.25:
500 Clown Makes an Elephant Deal
2008.12.20:
Celebrating Elliott Carter and Randy Hostetler
2008.11.24:
The Mysteries of Grey Gardens
2008.11.23:
Between Trains: The Nakedness of Becoming
2008.11.20:
Finding the Russian in Carmen
2008.11.04:
Lucrezia Borgia--WYSWIG? Not!
2008.10.31:
Kay Ryan and "This Laureate Thing"
2008.10.07:
The Red Face of a Bold Soprano
2008.09.30:
The Highs and Lows of Pearl Fishing
2008.07.28:
Long Limb, Upper Palate Inform Crashing Home
2008.06.22:
Love's Comedy--An Opera with Strings Attached
2008.06.20:
Sharpen Up Your Knife, Mackie!
2008.06.12:
Gérard Grisey & Maurice Saylor--Creating Music for Other Worlds
2008.06.09:
Listening to Margo Berdeshevsky
2008.05.07:
Mad Breed: A View of a Teenaged John Wilkes Booth
2008.05.03:
The Angelic Voices of David and Jonathas
2008.04.21:
Camus' The Plague as Coffin Ballet
2008.04.01:
The Intimacy of Dido & Aeneas
2008.03.28:
Split This Rock--On Rant
2008.03.26:
Split This Rock--The Historical & the Moving
2008.03.23:
Split This Rock--Poets Against War March 23, 2008
2008.03.23:
Split This Rock--Emerging from the Trenches March 22, 2008
2008.03.21:
Split This Rock--In the Trenches March 21, 2008
2008.03.20:
Split This Rock Poetry Festival--Opening Night
2008.03.20:
The Virtual Librarian: A Secret Life
2008.03.08:
The Ash Girl and Her Inner and Outer Demons
2008.02.25:
Scholarship Girl in Liverpool
2008.02.24:
Presenting Ned Rorem's Evidence
2008.02.19:
The Theater of the Kronos Quartet and Wu Man
2008.02.16:
Gertrude Stein Musical, Jasper Johns Art, In Bruges: the film
2008.02.08:
Shintoku-Maru--The Modern Meeting the Medieval
2008.02.07:
What Becomes You--Who Is That Masked Man?
2008.01.31:
The Weary Blues: Channeling Langston
2008.01.26:
Céline, Not His Brother's Keeper
2008.01.06:
Michael Kahn’s Tamburlaine
2007.12.27:
Through the Window of Annie Leibovitz's Camera
2007.12.14:
Spamalot: Girls, Gays, Jews, Oh My!
2007.12.12:
Otello & the Lighthouse
2007.12.11:
Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Not Just for Children
2007.12.08:
A Compelling Queen of Spades
2007.11.30:
Avenue Q—Not for Little Monsters
2007.11.25:
Is the Hoppera Popular Entertainment?Should it be?
2007.11.18:
The Maids Cleaned Up Are Still Women
2007.10.31:
Don Giovanni at Halloween
2007.10.25:
The Spelling Bee
2007.10.21:
No Exit
2007.10.14:
Tan Dun Brings The Stone Man to the Concert Hall
2007.10.10:
The Word Begins: A Rush of Images on War, Love, Race, Relationships
2007.08.29:
Vivaldi’s Virgins, a Tour de Force Novel
2007.06.23:
Volpone and What's in a Name
2007.06.21:
Birth of an Ekphrastic Opera Inspired by Edward Hopper's Art
2007.06.08:
Mark Adamo's Harp Concerto
2007.05.23:
Revolution: WNO Offers Free Opera Simulcasts to American Schools
2007.05.08:
Ecstatic Tears for Jenufa
2007.04.26:
Jenufa, A Good Girl in Big Trouble
2007.04.21:
The Cruelty of Armide's Beauty
2007.04.13:
Transformations: An Opera That Excites the Senses
2007.03.23:
Under the Horns of Brünnhilde
2007.03.09:
Carlo Gozzi’s The Green Bird
2007.03.04:
Frankie and Johnny and Black Snake Moan
2007.02.24:
Marin Alsop Conducts Glass at the BSO
2007.02.19:
New Classical Music: Steven Gerber, Adolphus Hailstork
2007.02.10:
The First Emperor in a theater near you
2007.01.23:
Into The Woods. Stephen Sondheim. Eric Schaeffer. Hilary Tham.
2007.01.12:
The Grapes of Wrath. Ricky Ian Gordon. Michael Korie. Elizabeth Futral.
2006.12.21:
Tan Dun. The First Emperor. Plácido Domingo. Grapes of Wrath. Ricky Ian Gordon.
2006.12.11:
Spike Lee. Tan Dun. Grapes of Wrath. Denzel Washington. Déjà Vu. Janice & Camus.
2006.12.05:
Macbeth. Spike Lee. Denzel Washington. Fatslug. Tan Dun. Janice & Camus.
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Conference of the Birds--An Oasis from the Hubbub
Poetry Taken to Other Levels
The Power of Anna Bolena
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