Author: Krista Lang Blackwood

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January 9, 2016

Kansas City Lyric Opera Launches Resident Artist Program

In Europe opera companies are considered cultural institutions and are often subsidized by government financing. In Germany there are more than 100 opera companies, three..
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December 29, 2015

How Pop Culture Paves the Way to the Classics

One writer’s path to Swan Lake… It was 1981. I got a Walkman and three new cassette tapes for Christmas: Working Class Dog, Super Trouper,..
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November 12, 2015

Honors: Margaret Marco and Forrest Pierce

In 2009, Forrest Pierce wrote a set of songs for the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra and local soprano Sarah Tannehill Anderson. The premiere of Twelve Kisses was so successful that Bruce Sorrell, the orchestra’s music director, programmed it again last season. Margaret Marco played oboe d’amore on both performances.
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November 4, 2015

A Listener’s Guide to “Rusalka”

This fall, the Lyric Opera of Kansas City will tell a story. In that story, a mermaid falls in love with a human prince. She..
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September 3, 2015

Bringing Art to Life

Twenty years ago, when Kansas City Repertory Theatre artistic director Eric Rosen was beginning his career, he worked as an assistant director at the Goodman Theatre. The theater is located in the Grand Hall of the Art Institute of Chicago, where the Post-Impressionist masterwork, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, by Georges Seurat, hangs.
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