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Highlights
| Britten - A Midsummer Night's Dream Friday, August 13 through Tuesday, August 17 The Barns at Wolf Trap This enchanting setting of Shakespeare's tale of mischief, fickle teenage love, magic, and comedy is the most beguiling of all Britten's operas -- a work with a spellbinding atmosphere that inhabits a truly unique dreamlike world. |
| Da Vinci - The Genius Through Sunday, September 12 National Geographic Featuring an array of full-scale machine inventions, reproductions of his famous Renaissance paintings, and detailed anatomical sketches, Da Vinci - The Genius demonstrates the full scope of Leonardo da Vinci's remarkable innovations as an inventor, artist, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, musician, and architect. |
| Washington National Opera Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball) Saturday, September 11 through Saturday, September 25 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Love, Murder and Betrayal in High Society! Based upon the real-life murder of 18th-century Swedish King Gustavus III, Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera tells the story of forbidden love in this lavish production. |
| Exhibition: Edvard Munch: Master Prints Saturday, July 31 through Sunday, October 31 National Gallery of Art Munch's greatest artistic legacy is his series of major prints depicting the basic human themes of attraction, love, and union; jealousy and separation; birth and awakening; and anxiety and death. |
| Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats Saturday, October 16 through Sunday, March 13, 2011 The Textile Museum |
| Prelude Brass "Come & Blow Your Horn!" Saturday, July 31 Reston Town Center |
