Programming and training at the Chautauqua Opera Company, the nation s oldest continuous summer opera company, will be dramatically scaled back to help close the Chautauqua Institution s projected funding shortfall.
It's really the perfect weekend for the Washington Ballet's revival of its grand 'The Sleeping Beauty.' With all the pomp and pageantry currently dominating news cycles, with flocks of kids are seen trailing behind newly-crowned monarchs lugging their elaborate trains, it didn't seem so out of place to see the same kind of splendor at the Kennedy Center.