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Everyone loves a Cinderella story. Opera audiences are no exception.
So while Portland Opera's production of the Rossini Cinderella fairy-tale opera, La Cenerentola, is not scheduled to open for another month, there was plenty of... More
Penn's Rich Voice Saves Thursday Carmen
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Everyone loves a Cinderella story. Opera audiences are no exception.
So while Portland Opera's production of the Rossini Cinderella fairy-tale opera, La Cenerentola, is not scheduled to open for another month, there was plenty of... More
UPDATED: Penn to pinch-hit for Perez in Thursday Carmen
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More Portland Opera drama!
Singer Jossie Perez—the lollipop-sucking, pelvis-thrusting, shimmy-and-shake star of the company's season-opening production of Bizet's Carmen—has fa... More
Lou Who? La Bamba heartthrob returns to the ol' song and dance.
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The star that was Lou Diamond Phillips may have long since dimmed since his quasi-fame in the late '80s and early 1990s (La Bamba, More
Ethan Rose, Sunday, Sept. 30
Music [ANTIQUE AMBIENCE] It's noon, and Ethan Rose is nursing a mug of coffee on an unseasonably cool September day. He sets the mug down and tugs on the sleeves of his button-up brown sweater. Rose is talking, in his understated tenor, about instruments: old ones, weird ones, forgotten ones. “A lot of instru... More
Portland Opera: Carmen
Performance Grinding your backside into an arresting officer’s crotch is one way of attempting to get out of handcuffed custody. Carmen attempts it, or at least Jossie Pérez’s ... More
ETHAN ROSE Sunday, Sept. 30
Headout [ANTIQUE AMBIENCE] It’s noon, and Ethan Rose is nursing a mug of coffee on an unseasonably cool September day. He sets the mug down and tugs on the sleeves of his button-up brown sweater. Rose i ... More
Blazers Idol! Sing it up at Center Court
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For all you aspiring Beyoncés and Clay Aikens with Center Court dreams, the Blazers has a proposition: come over to the Rose Garden and belt out the National Anthem for your shot at pre-Blazers game glory.
That's right: The Blazers are holding a cattle-call OPEN AUDITION t... More
Les Little Miserables
Will Northwest Children’s Theater get a fixed-up home?
News The Northwest Children’s Theater has an ambitious dream: raise $6 million in the next five years to turn its crumbling home into a flagship arts center serving three times as many children as no ... More
She’s a Maneater
The ads say singer Jossie Pérez IS Carmen. They’re right.
Featured Stories Jossie Pérez is not a party girl or a slut, she just plays one onstage. No, really! Just listen to how colleagues describe her: “Jossie is a wild girl,” says a former MetOpera colle ... More
TBA Diary: Waller's Unfinished "Hope Chest" Beautifully Sung
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There's a moment that's been rattling around in my head for at least a day now, like some haunting technicolor dream.
"I want to see every leaf on every tree," Portland's Holcombe Waller sings in his song, "Atlas." But his voice doesn'... More
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Buxom Madsen-Bradford Bares All as Carmen. Altar Boyz
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New Portland Art Museum executive director says what he really thinks about football fans and art snobs. Jun Iwasaki & the Oregon Symphony
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Free eats and cheap drinks can't save a free-falling new dance company. Wade Mccollum
What a standout Portland actor really thinks about local theater.
The artist/inventor/entrepreneur returns to Portland, golden tits and bling in tow. Portland Sacred Harp Singing
Attention, shoppers: Loud Protestant hymn singing in Aisle 3. Opera Theater Oregon: Opera Cinema—Carmen
Buxom Madsen-Bradford Bares All as Carmen. Altar Boyz
All genuflect to the catholic tastes of a cult musical hit. Amy Schwartz Moretti
What does it say about Portland arts that the 30-year-old concertmaster of the Oregon Symphony is leaving for Georgia? Portland Gay Men's Chorus
A bunch of gay guys singing the words of Jesus, Gandhi...and Mother Teresa? Brian Ferriso
New Portland Art Museum executive director says what he really thinks about football fans and art snobs. Jun Iwasaki & the Oregon Symphony
A new town, a new sound and a big raise for this young violinist. Key Turn Project
Free eats and cheap drinks can't save a free-falling new dance company. Wade Mccollum
What a standout Portland actor really thinks about local theater.
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