The Hirshhorn presents work from Simone Leigh's acclaimed Venice Biennale installation. Plus, Aubrey Plaza takes the stage off-Broadway, in our arts newsletter
NEW ORLEANS New Orleans Opera (NOO) promoted its production of Blue as “the southern premiere of the most talked-about new American opera.” I’d been meaning to get back to the Crescent City to see it once more after leaving it in 1978 (45 years ago!) when I finished up my last degree at Tu.
The company's latest staging of Wagner's opera, the mythical tale of the Swan Knight, sharply directed and expertly sung, gets a modern update as it explores themes of war, totalitarianism, and how the effects of lies and deceit can ravage a country leaning toward fascism.