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Offenbach Operetta Songbird Gets a New and Snappy 1920’s New Orleans Jazz Treatment with Superstar Isabel Leonard

Offenbach Operetta Songbird Gets a New and Snappy 1920’s New Orleans Jazz Treatment with Superstar Isabel Leonard

Songbird The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Jordan Wright March 15, 2024 Special to The Zebra

A scene from Songbird (Photo/Scott Suchman)

If you tell me Isabel […]

Silent Night ~ At The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Jordan Wright November 12, 2018

Guns fell silent on Christmas Eve 1914 on the Belgian Front during World War I. Due to a peculiar string of events, this cease fire is one of the strangest tales to ever occur during this war – or any war for that matter. It’s a story that was […]

La Traviata ~ Washington National Opera ~ Kennedy Center

Jordan Wright October 19, 2018

Much excitement has been generated by the hiring of new General Director and leadership partner, Timothy O’Leary, to the Washington National Opera’s senior leadership. O’Leary served for ten years as General Director for Opera Theater of Saint Louis producing innovative programs that attracted a new audience of millennials to […]

Nibbles and Sips Around Town 2018

Jordan Wright May/June 2018 Photo credit ~ Jordan Wright

District Distilling Co. for Father’s Day ~ Filipino Cuisine at Bistro 1521 Resto + Bar ~ Jackson 20 Launches Pop-Up Beer Garden for NOVA Pride Month ~ Maydān ~ The Occidental Grill & Seafood Restaurant ~ The Fairmont Hotel Royal Wedding Watch Party ~ 2018 […]

Candide ~ The Kennedy Center

Jordan Wright May 8, 2018

Imagine, if you will that composer Leonard Bernstein’s 18th C set piece opera Candide was first staged the year following the Broadway premiere West Side Story. 1956. It seems incredible that these two wildly divergent stories were composed, staged and produced by one man in less than twelve months. […]