RSS FeedMadama Butterfly On The Mall (pic)
Yesterday was the free showing of Madama Butterfly on the mall. While Friday and Saturday’s weather was unseasonably awesome, Sunday brought the clouds and rain. 
E Street Construction Update: Part 2 – Artisan Condo
Here’s a look at the almost completed entrance to the Artisan condo at 915 E Street. According to the MLS listings, condo deliveries in this building will begin in one month’s time. JBG has also revamped the condo’s website, presumably to redouble the effort required to sell the last remaining units.
E Street Construction Update: Part 1 – Piper Rudnick
The new offices of Piper Rudnick continue to go up at the corner of 9th and E Streets, NW. We mentioned this building first in our E Street Corridor Roundup.
Washington National Opera’s Second Annual Simulcast On National Mall
The Public is invited to a free performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly on Sunday, November 12 at 2:00 p.m.!
- Washington National Opera – the nation’s opera company – will present a special bigscreen simulcast performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly on the National Mall on Sunday, November 12 at 2:00 p.m. WNO will transmit the performance of Butterfly live from the Kennedy Center stage to a huge 18′ x 32′ LED video screen located near the U.S. Capitol. The simulcast is expected to draw one of the nation’s largest known opera audiences and is part of WNO’s continuing commitment to broadcast one opera on the Mall each year, following the company’s groundbreaking simulcast of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess in November 2005, which attracted over 13,000 in attendance.
For more information on the screening of Madama Butterfly on the Mall please call 202.295.2400 or visit www.dcopera.org.
Here is the official notice (pdf). Pic courtesy of dc-opera.org.