By Jennie Christensen, Cache Valley Daily Published: Thursday, July 17, 2014 Each year around the July 24th Pioneer Day holiday the Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre presents a special Pioneers and Patriots concert. Founder and general director Michael Ballam says this year the concert will pay tribute to John Philip Sousa who came to … Continued

By Katie Roundy, Utah Theatre Bloggers Posted: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 LOGAN — Every musical theatre fan has a list of our favorite shows—the ones they can watch over and over again, and each time experience all the emotion and passion as if for the first time. On my list is Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel … Continued

By Edward Reichel, Reichel Recommends Posted: Friday, July 11, 2014 Michael Ballam’s Utah Festival occasionally presents works not normally seen in Utah. In the past the festival has staged Giacomo Puccini’s Manon Lescaut and Modest Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, both of which Utah Opera has yet to mount. This year, it’s Samuel Barber’s 1958 Pulitzer Prize … Continued