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Gross Glück und Heil lacht nun dem Rhein: Scheduling 14 Aug 2013 | 11:30 am
Gentle Readers, I thank you for your forbearance during a summer of irregular and infrequent blogging. I have been rusticated for the past months, far (alas) from live opera. Withdrawal symptoms have ...
Great Voices Sing John Denver 26 Jul 2013 | 08:44 pm
Placido Domingo & John Denver, ca. 1980 I associate John Denver with road trips: rolled down windows, long ribbons of asphalt, and a carful of untrained singers happily caroling "Take me home, countr...
Owen Wingrave: You forget, you are the enemy too 20 Jul 2013 | 06:44 pm
Finley and Savidge: debating duty Owen Wingrave may suffer by comparison with Britten's other operas, but it's still, to my mind, a stimulating piece, with exciting vocal writing, some specially beau...
U-Carmen: Bizet in South Africa 8 Jul 2013 | 07:01 pm
The vibrant, award-winning film U-Carmen eKhayelitsha was released in 2005, but it was a recent and welcome discovery to me (through Netflix's streaming services, of all things.) Directed by Mark Dorn...
La hija de Rappaccini: Opera in the Garden of Good and Evil 20 Jun 2013 | 02:39 am
Elaine Alvarez as Rappacini's Daughter (c) Gotham Chamber Opera/Richard Termine Gotham Chamber Opera has made a specialty of presenting unusual opera in unconventional spaces. Their production of Dan...
¡Figaro! Morningside's Mozartean morality play 15 Jun 2013 | 02:29 am
Susanna and Figaro discuss the future Photo (c) Karen Almond/Morningside Opera Morningside Opera is currently performing a run of ¡Figaro! (90210), an opera consisting of a rearrangement of Mozart's ...
Love is stronger than war: Branagh's Magic Flute 11 Jun 2013 | 09:43 pm
Revising history: now with more Mozart While I like Kenneth Branagh as a director, love Mozart (obviously,) and have a thing for First World War dramas, I wasn't sure what to expect of the confluence...
Vieni fuori: Dallapiccola's Prigioniero with the NYPhil 11 Jun 2013 | 12:59 am
I went to Saturday's concert with the New York Philharmonic for the sake of Luigi Dallapiccola's rarely performed Il Prigioniero, but ended up being entranced by the Prokoviev violin concerto which pr...
Interval Adventures: Westsider Records 7 Jun 2013 | 10:21 am
I'm not quite sure why it took a cloudburst and a spare half hour before a performance to drive me into Westsider Records, as this pleasing warren of dusty shelves is barely a stone's throw from the M...
La Reina: old-fashioned melodrama meets modern grit at InsightALT 5 Jun 2013 | 10:37 pm
The InsightALT festival of masterclasses, symposiums, and opera performances concluded on Monday with La Reina, a dark, sensual opera for which I'm tempted to coin the term neo-verismo. Composed by Jo...
