Anna Bolena presented by Washington National Opera at The Kennedy Center

Anna Bolena

The Kennedy Center
2700 F Street, NW Washington

A queen falls from grace as her unfaithful king plots to bring his mistress to the throne. The golden age of Italian bel canto opera shines with dark reflections in Donizetti's moving retelling of Anne Boleyn's tragedy starring Sondra Radvanovsky.

Presented by Washington National Opera

Thru - Oct 6, 2012

Price: $25-$300

Show Type: Opera

Running Time: 3 hrs, 30 mins with 1 intermission

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Washington Post - Somewhat Recommended

".. In short: Donizetti’s “Anna Bolena,” which opened the Washington National Opera’s season on Saturday, was an up-and-down evening. But on balance, the good outweighed the not good. Sondra Radvanovsky offered some singing that was simply intoxicating, making the kind of sounds you want to bathe in. And Stephen Lawless, the director, told such a compelling story that it involved you even when other singers were less strong."

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- Anne Midgette

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

"... The Washington National Opera’s season opened Saturday with a highly anticipated role debut. Celebrated Verdi specialist Sondra Radvanovsky, in a departure from her usual spinto repertory, took on the bel canto challenges of the title role in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena. While short of an outright triumph, the occasion proved a successful one for the soprano, who created a compelling and often thrilling vocal and dramatic portrait of the doomed heroine."

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- Simon Chin

MetroWeekly - Highly Recommended

"... History will always deliver some the best drama, but it's a rare thing to see it imagined and executed –every pun intended –with such artistry and humanity."

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- Kate Wingfield

The Georgetowner - Recommended

"... Director Stephen Lawless has chosen to stage this intensely focused story and production in a setting (by Benoit Dugardyn) that resembles Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, a kind of surrounding area of rich brown wood that can reform itself to bring a scene into excruciating focus to become a bedroom, a chamber a prison cell, while above the doors is something resembling a circular balcony where crowds of courtiers, men and women in red and black, various factions, appear to peer down on the scene, creating a claustrophobic atmosphere for the characters, a place where no one is ever truly alone. This accurately reflects a political atmosphere that existed among Renaissance royalty and rulers in Tudor England, the beginnings of the police state."

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- Gary Tischler

DCTheatreScene - Recommended

If you want to hear one great operatic voice make your soul vibrate, go hear Sondra Radvanovsky in Anna Bolena. Washington National Opera opened its season Saturday night giving Washington’s black tie set a singer who demonstrated unequivocally that she can take charge and embody this difficult role.

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- Susan Galbraith

Anna Bolena presented by Washington National Opera at The Kennedy Center

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Anna Bolena Reviews

Washington Post - Somewhat Recommended

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

MetroWeekly - Highly Recommended

The Georgetowner - Recommended

DCTheatreScene - Recommended

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