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There's only one work on the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Chorus program this weekend, but it's a big one: the "Messa da Requiem" (Requiem Mass) by Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901). If you haven...

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What's on St. Louis theater and cabaret stages this coming week. Please leave a comment if anything was wrong or got left out Melissa ErricoThe Blue Strawberry presents Melissa Errico Sings Sondh...

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A chilly wind blows through St. Louis this weekend as temperatures drop back to something more closely approximating the norm for late April. By sheer coincidence the musical equivalent of a bris...

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What's on St. Louis theater and cabaret stages this coming week. Please leave a comment if anything was wrong or got left out Leann SchueringThe Blue Strawberry presents Hindsight is 20/20 with s...

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When St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Principal Horn Roger Kaza and Fourth Horn Julie Thayer started putting together the program for the “Horn Calls” program presented at the Sheldon last Sunday...

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What's on St. Louis theater and cabaret stages this coming week. Please leave a comment if anything was wrong or got left out The Blue Strawberry presents Johnny Mathis: Different Stands Alone wi...

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What's on St. Louis theater and cabaret stages this coming week. Please leave a comment if anything was wrong or got left out Aquarian Rising Productions presents A Colored Funeral by Gregory S. ...

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What's on St. Louis theater and cabaret stages this coming week. Please leave a comment if anything was wrong or got left out Molly Sweeny Photo: John Lamb Albion Theatre Company presents Molly S...

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During the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s (SLSO) “Operatic Favorites” concert a few weeks ago, Music Director Stéphane Denève reminded us that for much of its history opera has been accom...

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In Act I, scene 1 of Shakespeare’s comedy “Much Ado About Nothing,” Leonato, the Governor of Messina, plays down his niece Beatrice’s insulting description of Benedick, saying that there ...

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Last week (March 16–18) Opera Theatre of St. Louis unveiled its second annual New Works Collective (NWC).  This year the composer/librettist teams that created the three brand-new 20-minut...

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Through March 27th, Joe Hanrahan’s Midnight Company is presenting the latest in a series of cabaret-oriented original shows at The Blue Strawberry Showroom and Lounge, just down the street fro...

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What's on St. Louis theater and cabaret stages this coming week. Please leave a comment if anything was wrong or got left out Molly SweenyPhoto: John LambAlbion Theatre Company presents Molly Swe...

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“Invitation to the Dance” (“Aufforderung zum Tanz”), Op. 65, is one of the more popular pieces by Carl Maria von Weber, especially in its 1841 orchestration by Hector Berlioz. It’s also...

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What's on St. Louis theater and cabaret stages this coming week. Please leave a comment if anything was wrong or got left out Albion Theatre Company presents Molly Sweeny by Brian Friel March 15 ...

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We’re still nearly three months away from opening night at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, but last Sunday (March 3) Stéphane Denève and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra decided to “spring ahea...

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Victor Herbert's 1910 operetta "Naughty Marietta" got quite a fine production the weekend of March 1 by Winter Opera St. Louis. With a new book by Ball State University’s David Taylor Little (t...

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What's on St. Louis theater and cabaret stages this coming week. Please leave a comment if anything was wrong or got left out Fly Photo: Keshon Campbell The Black Rep presents Fly by Joseph L. Ed...

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Stéphane Denève and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Chorus continued their peripatetic wanderjahr last night (February 28) with a brilliantly conceived all-French program at the Cathedral ...

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Summer is usually opera season here in St. Louis but this Sunday (March 3) Stéphane Denève and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra get a jump on it with “Operatic Favorites.” It’s a collecti...

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What's on St. Louis theater and cabaret stages this coming week. Please leave a comment if anything was wrong or got left out The Alpha Players present  Prelude to a Kiss by Craig Lucas Frid...

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Last Saturday night (February 17) Stéphane Denève took a few minutes before giving the downbeat to the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO) to ask the audience to applaud less. [Find out more ab...

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What's on St. Louis theater and cabaret stages this coming week. Please leave a comment if anything was wrong or got left out The Alpha Players present  Prelude to a Kiss by Craig Lucas Frid...

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I have often written that the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO) Music Director Stéphane Denève knows how to use silence as a musical element. So it’s not surprising to see him saying the fo...

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What's on St.Louis theater and cabaret stages this coming week. Please leave a comment if anything was wrong or got left out The Black Rep presents Fly by Joseph L. Edwards opening on Wednesday, ...

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