Cincinnati Ballet opens its production of the 19th Century warhorse at Music Hall February 13. And it will be gorgeous, I’m sure. But why not one of the many other fine works that fill the ballet repertory?
Year in and year out, “Nutcracker” has been the reliable cash cow that bankrolled the rest of the Cincinnati Ballet season. And year in and year out, Frisch’s has been there, too, supporting the existing production even as it set aside money for the next production. This is how that relationship came about…
Cincinnati Opera’s annual gala is always one of the season’s must-attend events. These are folks who stage grand opera, after all. You can count on a spectacle. But this year’s gala is likely to be splashier than most – and…
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Each year, it’s harder to select five must-see shows for our September issue. Should I go for sass (Broadway in Cincinnati’s “Mean Girls”) or class (CincyShakes’ “Titus Andronicus”)? Or maybe the totally unpredictable (“The Kaplan New Works Series” by Cincy…
Profile in Volunteering: In arts education, the common belief is that you have to start children young. If you wait until high school or college to expose them to things like theater and classical music, it’s probably too late. Their tastes have largely been shaped. It’s the same thing with philanthropy …
Profile in Volunteering: The nature of giving has changed. Ever so gradually, the torch of philanthropy is being passed from an older generation to a younger one. And, not surprisingly, these younger givers look at the world differently than their parents and grandparents did.
The May Festival was expanding. Actually, “expanding” is too limited a description. It is undergoing a change as momentous as anything it has experienced in decades.
“This Time Tomorrow” is a four-day festival featuring more than two dozen presentations by 11 artists. “My hope is that this is something that will feed the cultural ecology of the city,” said founder Drew Klein of the CAC.
His charge is a sprawling one: to revitalize and broaden the reach of the College-Conservatory of Music, to integrate it more deeply with the community and with the rest of the University of Cincinnati. In short, new dean Stanley Romanstein
has been asked to bring CCM into the 21st century, by any means necessary.
