Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Capsule Stage Reviews: Don Giovanni, Knock Me a Kiss, The Lion in Winter, Macbeth

Don Giovanni

The Chieftains: 50th Anniversary Tour

Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet

Mozart’s Symphony No. 40

A Little Night Music

The Amadeus Project

Capsule Stage Reviews: Cosi fan tutte, Dear Santa, Speed-the-Plow, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, When the Day Met the Night (a moosehunt experience)

Mozart Under the Stars

Mozart and Dvorak

Capsule Stage Reviews: The Marriage of Figaro, King Lear, Come Back, Little Sheba,  Under the Big Dark Sky

Mediocrity versus Genius

The Alley's Amadeus imagines relationship between two musicians.

Capsule Stage Reviews: Easter Catechism, The Marriage of Figaro, A Murder Is Announced, The Trip to Bountiful

The Marriage of Figaro

Eroica Trio

Amadeus

Before "Free Bird," There Was Clementi Vs. Mozart

Musio Clemente, as painted by Aleksander Orlowski​It's hard to argue against the guitar solos that make up the second half of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" as being one of the most famous duels of musical virtuosity in audio history. It's Gary Rossington vs. Allen Collins in a six-string fight ... More >>

Opera to Go: The Magic Flute

Mozart's classic children's opera gets a facelift

Houston Ballet:: Three for the Ages

This HB program features some of the best dance of the last 75 years

Apollo Travels the Globe

Go across the pond and back again with the chamber music ensemble

Houston Symphony: Forces of Nature

Listen to Mozart's and Beethoven's versions of the natural world

Snackshot: Mozart's

Photos by Katharine Shilcutt​Shiny black ducks bob in the placid water of Lake Austin, just above the dam that creates Lady Bird Lake (nee Town Lake) just below the immense concrete barrier. They dive underneath the water every few minutes or so, catching minnows while they wait patiently for ... More >>

The Magic Flute

The New York Met screens the story of the Queen of the Night

Star Spangled Salute

The Houston Symphony brings out the big guns

“The Trilogy: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart"

Two dance companies perform three works about one man

Houston Symphony: Leila Josefowicz Plus Brahms’s First

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Capsule Stage Reviews: Amadeus, Nursery School Musical, The Pie Dialogues

Capsule Stage Reviews: Amadeus, bobrauschenbergamerica, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Eurydice, John, His Story

Diane Stanley

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Happy Belated Birthday, Mozart

Overture, La Nozze di Figaro Rocks Off can usually be counted on to forget at least one thing per day, and yesterday it just happened to be that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, known in his day as the Elvis of Salzburg, was born January 27, 1756. A quarter of a millennium later, he's still a genius. Here ... More >>

Jubilee of Dance

They can’t take ballet away from me

Music to Shuffle Off This Mortal Coil

Mozart in Vienna

Da Camera trots out the Mr. M masters for their opening night concert

Mozart and Shostakovich

The Houston Symphony welcomes orchestrated poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Amadeus: Music and a Movie

Austin’s PKW Productions provides a live soundtrack to the fictionalized life of Mozart

Capsule Stage Reviews: Frozen, Jersey Boys, The Magic Flute, Young and Fertle

Attention, Opera-holics: Mozart is Coming to Town

A mini-Mozart festival and an operatic rarity roar into town

“Opposites Attract”

Musiqa Houston and the Aurora Picture Show join forces

Stage Capsule Reviews: Fools, The Marriage of Figaro, Over the River and Through the Woods, Rough Night at the Remo Room, The Scene

Love the Day

Mo's Art

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

David Olney

Tuesday, April 19, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, 713-528-5999.

Some Serious Opera

Idomeneo may be dry at times, but Mozart is still a genius

Magic Show

Mozart and Maurice make a fine combo

Rock Me, Again

A restored Amadeus reveals a truly beautiful mind

No Surtitles Required

Mozart's sublime music makes even the silly plot of Così sound noble

Rivalry and Requiem

Magic Flutes

Dutch group makes music the old-fashioned way

A Magical Flute

Gerald Scarfe gives Mozart's opera a fanciful new look