lyric opera of baltimore
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Kurt Weill's "Street Scene," a blend of opera and musical, will be staged with a Baltimore twist by Peabody Opera Theatre at the Modell-Lyric Performing Arts Center. - An all-girls a cappella group at Friends School is the opening act for Friday's Jay Leno show at Lyric Opera House. We profile the group and how they got such a big gig.
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- The neighborhood is less than two miles northwest of the Inner Harbor. Intricately landscaped boulevards and medians are a nod to the community¿s Victorian roots, while numerous war monuments, sculptures and fountains add to Bolton Hill¿s lengthy list of historical significant features.
- John G. Schisler, who was the former longtime spokesman and director of public relations for the old Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., died Friday at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 85.
- Lyric Opera Baltimore will present only one staged work, 'Madama Butterfly,' during the 2014-2015 season, plus fundraiser concerts.
- A historic YMCA in Mount Vernon, once home to confessed Soviet spy Whittaker Chambers and a hotel run by the former Baltimore International Culinary college, is to become a 197-room Hotel Indigo, one of the new owners said.
- When Lyric Opera Baltimore closes its season with Verdi's first hit, 'Nabucco,' the audience will not only get to hear an encore of a choral number, but sing along with it.
- The Mahler work, which Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony recorded in 2008, is on a program that also features Rachmaninoff's 'Rhapsody' with pianist Yekwon Sunwoo.
- Karl, Seibert appear in musical adaptation of Stallone's Philadelphia boxing film
- Company is performing in Baltimore for the first time in at least 15 years as part of Lyric Opera House's celebration of 120 years of continuous operation
- Students at Arbutus Middle School are collecting jeans for homeless teenagers as part of a national effort called "Jeans for Teens" that is scheduled to end Sunday. Language arts teacher Rizza Padilla, 31, set up a bin in her classroom for students and teachers to donate gently used jeans. She became involved in the charitable effort through the web site. DoSomething.org.
