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WHRO arts and culture reporter Rebecca Weinstein brings you a fresh, exciting take on our vibrant local arts scene. A seasoned writer and classically trained soprano with a commitment to expanding audiences for the arts, she grew up and discovered her love of the performing arts in the Hampton Roads area, studied music at the prestigious Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, and honed her arts writing skills while living and working in the Washington, D.C. area. Rebecca is your friendly, knowle ...
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On Friday night, the Virginia Symphony Orchestra launched its 99th season with a program called “Rachmaninoff and Ravel." The occasion also marked conductor and music director JoAnn Falletta’s final opening night with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra after 28 years of consistently raising the bar of arts excellence in our region.…
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Last weekend, Generic Theater opened a striking production of the musical Chess in their space in the black box theater under Chrysler Hall. The show plays until July 21; don’t miss your chance to see this unique, large-scale production of a show the Hampton Roads region has never seen before.De către 89.5 WHRV-FM, Norfolk, VA
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Last weekend, Virginia Arts Festival presented an interpretation of Shakespeare’s play Antony and Cleopatra at the Ferguson Center and Chrysler Hall, in addition to a show featuring Michael Feinstein at the Sandler Center. From classical music and Shakespeare to Broadway and cabaret, the 2019 season had a bit of something for every taste.…
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Last weekend, Virginia Arts Festival brought us a world premiere and a weekend of spectacular dance at Norfolk’s Chrysler Hall. Dance Theatre of Harlem was born 50 years ago as the first African American classical ballet company. In this engagement at Virginia Arts Festival, Dance Theatre of Harlem performed the pieces “Valse Fantaisie,” “Adagietto…
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On April 6, Virginia Opera presented the final offering of its new Variations season of short, casual, and contemporary opera in English. The chamber opera, called “An American Dream,” by composer Jack Perla and librettist Jessica Murphy Moo, centered on two women in America during World War II: a Japanese American young woman sent to an internment…
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Last weekend, our very own Virginia Ballet Theatre brought a taste of extraordinary dance to Norfolk, presenting its annual sweetheart concert at ODU’s University Theatre. The concert included dances from Swan Lake and Le Corsaire, a piece called Twilight, and then two modern pieces, Fragile Strength and The Larks, choreographed by Artistic Directo…
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On Wednesday night, a very unique opera happened at the Williamsburg Regional Library. Opera in Williamsburg teamed up with Opera Piccola of Israel to present a one-woman operatic version of The Diary of Anne Frank, performed in Hebrew with English supertitles.De către 89.5 WHRV-FM, Norfolk, VA
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Last weekend, Virginia Stage Company opened their production of the musical Fun Home at the Wells Theatre in Downtown Norfolk. Fun Home is based on the best-selling graphic novel by Alison Bechdel, with music by Jeanine Tesori, and a book and lyrics by Lisa Kron. It’s the first Broadway musical with a lesbian protagonist, winning five Tony Awards w…
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Many musical groups around Hampton Roads are in the midst of performing their holiday concerts. The Virginia Choral Society presents an ambitious, unique, and spirited program this December called Carols and Lullabies of the Southwest.De către 89.5 WHRV-FM, Norfolk, VA
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Last weekend, Washington National Opera opened Silent Night at the Kennedy Center to memorialize the centennial of the World War I armistice. The Great War catapulted the City of Norfolk through a tremendous population boom and led to the Navy's acquisition of the site that would eventually become Naval Station Norfolk, the largest naval base in th…
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Last weekend, Virginia Opera kicked off its 2018-2019 season with Kurt Weill’s Street Scene. Street Scene narrates 24 hours of family life in front of a tenement in 1940s New York City, encompassing themes like domestic violence, immigration, and wealth inequality that could have been torn from 2018 headlines.…
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Last weekend, the Virginia Symphony Orchestra commenced their 2018-2019 season with performances at the Ferguson Center for the Arts, Chrysler Hall, and the Sandler Center for the Performing Arts. The show, titled Pictures at an Exhibition, featured the orchestra at its finest under conductor JoAnn Falletta, who’s now in her last full season with t…
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Generic Theater’s latest production, Hand to God, premiered Off-Broadway in 2011 and hit Broadway stages in 2015, where it garnered five Tony Award nominations. The play has been described by The New Yorker as “Sesame Street meets the Exorcist.”De către 89.5 WHRV-FM, Norfolk, VA
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This year, Virginia Stage Company’s annual production of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is a revamped musical adaption with a refreshed script and set, along with a new lead starring as Ebenezer Scrooge. Rebecca gives us her take on this new version of a holiday classic.De către 89.5 WHRV-FM, Norfolk, VA
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Virginia Opera launched its 43rd season with Camille Saint-Saëns’ Samson and Delilah, and the production made a number of bold choices. Was the staging insightful or merely crafted for shock value? Rebecca gives us her take. For upcoming Virginia Opera performances, visit vaopera.org.De către 89.5 WHRV-FM, Norfolk, VA
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Rebecca reviews the opening concert of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra’s 97th Season, and shares her thoughts on the orchestra’s efforts to bridge the pop and classical worlds and draw in new audiences. The program featured Grammy-winning electric bassist Victor Wooten as a concerto soloist in The Bass Whisperer, and the iconic suite The Planets by…
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