/tags/scott-schoonover Scott Schoonover en-US Copyright © 2024 �������� Fri, 06 Jul 2018 21:37:00 GMT /show/st-louis-on-the-air/2018-07-06/union-avenue-opera-sets-sail-opens-season-with-h-m-s-pinafore Union Avenue Opera (UAO) will open its 24th festival season July 6 on a light note with the Gilbert and Sullivan comedic operetta, “H.M.S. Pinafore.” It… Fri, 06 Jul 2018 21:37:00 GMT /show/st-louis-on-the-air/2018-07-06/union-avenue-opera-sets-sail-opens-season-with-h-m-s-pinafore Mary Edwards /show/st-louis-on-the-air/2016-07-05/union-avenue-opera-opens-22nd-season-with-a-new-take-on-the-mikado The curtain rises on Union Avenue Opera’s 22nd Festival Season on July 8 with a new adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic, “The Mikado.” On… Tue, 05 Jul 2016 21:46:23 GMT /show/st-louis-on-the-air/2016-07-05/union-avenue-opera-opens-22nd-season-with-a-new-take-on-the-mikado Mary Edwards, Kelly Moffitt /arts/2015-08-23/reflection-looking-for-sparks-of-redemption-in-gotterdammerungs-ashes On the way home Friday night from the Union Avenue Opera on North Union Boulevard, I landed in the middle of a beehive at the intersection of Euclid and… Sun, 23 Aug 2015 16:07:24 GMT /arts/2015-08-23/reflection-looking-for-sparks-of-redemption-in-gotterdammerungs-ashes Robert Duffy /arts/2015-08-01/reflection-from-rigolettos-dark-welter-of-decay-contrast-offers-a-path-to-goodness Musicologists have had a field day divvying up the operas of the towering Italian genius Giuseppe Verdi. “Rigoletto” -- performed this weekend with… Sun, 02 Aug 2015 03:01:45 GMT /arts/2015-08-01/reflection-from-rigolettos-dark-welter-of-decay-contrast-offers-a-path-to-goodness Robert Duffy /arts/2015-07-03/union-avenue-opera-comes-of-age-with-don-giovanni Union Avenue Opera opens its 21st festival season on July 10 with Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” When “Cityscape" host Steve Potter pointed out that age 21 in… Fri, 03 Jul 2015 17:13:08 GMT /arts/2015-07-03/union-avenue-opera-comes-of-age-with-don-giovanni Mary Edwards /arts/2014-06-27/la-traviata-opens-union-avenue-operas-20th-festival-season When Union Avenue Opera opens its 2014 season on July 11 with Verdi’s La Traviata, it will be with a company that is vastly different than the one that… Sat, 28 Jun 2014 01:07:09 GMT /arts/2014-06-27/la-traviata-opens-union-avenue-operas-20th-festival-season Mary Edwards /arts-culture/2013-08-09/union-avenue-opera-continues-its-ring-cycle-with-die-walkure When one thinks of Wagner’s Ring cycle, what comes to mind is a huge cast, orchestra and set which can only be performed in the world’s largest opera… Sat, 10 Aug 2013 04:01:36 GMT /arts-culture/2013-08-09/union-avenue-opera-continues-its-ring-cycle-with-die-walkure Mary Edwards /arts/2013-04-15/uaos-trouble-in-tahiti-should-be-smooth-sailing This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: Many of Allyson Ditchey’s St. Louis friends passionately love Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story”… Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:04:55 GMT /arts/2013-04-15/uaos-trouble-in-tahiti-should-be-smooth-sailing Patricia Rice /arts/2013-04-12/union-avenue-operas-trouble-in-tahiti Union Avenue Opera opens its Nineteenth Festival Season with Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti. Written in 1952, the one act opera portrays the… Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:12:04 GMT /arts/2013-04-12/union-avenue-operas-trouble-in-tahiti Mary Edwards, Alex Heuer /government-politics-issues/2012-01-17/winter-opera-grows-into-new-theater-new-offices This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Jan. 17, 2012 - It's opera time in St. Louis, again. Winter is opera season in much of the Western… Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:51:31 GMT /government-politics-issues/2012-01-17/winter-opera-grows-into-new-theater-new-offices Patricia Rice