Washington National Opera is celebrating 70 years and entering a new era

The Washington National Opera is celebrating both past and present and talks about their recent spilt from the Kennedy Center ...
BroadwayWorld

Exclusive: Washington National Opera Forges Ahead Following Kennedy Center Split

Washington National Opera General Director Timothy O'Leary discusses the company's transition, community support, rebuilding ...
BroadwayWorld

Stephen Schwartz Pulls Out of Washington National Opera Gala at Kennedy Center

Schwartz stated in an email: "It no longer represents the apolitical place for free artistic expression it was founded to be... There's no way I would set foot in it now." The Wicked composer went on ...
Colgate University

Washington National Opera to Premiere Professor Kyle Bass’s Rendition of Treemonisha

Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha, an opera that blends ragtime, Black folksongs, spirituals, ballet, and traditional operatic elements, is being brought to the stage by playwright and Colgate Associate ...

Washington National Opera returns to Baltimore after 17 years

Washington's loss turns out to be Baltimore's gain. For the first time in 17 years, The Washington National Opera returns to The Lyric Baltimore. The opera will perform "West Side Story" from May ...
Newsday

Washington National Opera bows out of Kennedy Center

WASHINGTON — The Washington National Opera announced Friday that it will move performances away from the Kennedy Center in another high-profile departure following President Donald Trump's takeover of ...

With shuttering of Kennedy Center, large-scale opera returns to Maryland

Thanks to the yearlong turmoil roiling the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, large-scale opera will return to Baltimore this spring for the first time in 17 years. The ...