Caramoor Opens Its Summer Season With a Night of Italian Opera
At 8:30 pm on Saturday, June 17, listen live as Caramoor opens its summer season with a concert celebrating the 20th anniversary of Bel Canto at Caramoor. Artist-in-Residence soprano Angela Meade is...
View ArticleThe Challenge of Translating Traditional Stage Works for Today's Modern...
Earlier this month, controversy erupted after a Fox News program reported on a certain New York City play. That “play” was Julius Caesar, written by William Shakespeare in 1599. In the play’s third...
View ArticleMissing 'The Leftovers'? Explore the Music Next
HBO’s acclaimed series The Leftovers came to a finish earlier this month. For those at a loss for what to do with their lives post Leftovers, here’s a suggestion: dive further into the music. Since its...
View ArticleThe Opera Party: Pride Without Prejudice
At 7 pm on Thursday, June 22, watch Metropolitan Opera countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo celebrate opera — and its secrets — in a whole new way at The Greene Space.At our final Opera Party of the...
View ArticleGig Alert: Julia Holter's Tragedy Opera at National Sawdust, 6/22 & 6/23
Gig Alert: Julia Holter's Tragedy Opera at National Sawdust Tickets: $34-$42, General Admission. Shows at 7PM, 6/22 & 6/23Singer and composer Julia Holter writes music that blurs the line between...
View ArticleThoughts on Opera and Gay Pride
It seems to me that opera, on the stage, is more gay than ever but possibly the opera audience is less gay than ever. By this I mean that opera no longer serves as a discreet refuge for an oppressed...
View ArticleMozart's Immensely Popular 'Magic Flute' Is Your Saturday at the Opera...
Tune in Saturday at 1 pm EST for Mozart’s immensely successful fantasy opera The Magic Flute. The two-act production begins as a romantic princess rescue mission, a common theme amongst works of its...
View ArticleWatch the First Episode of ‘Vireo,’ Lisa Bielawa's New Binge-Worthy Opera
Lisa Bielawa’s Vireo is meant for binge-watching. That’s not a phrase one typically associates with opera, but taken in the context of Bielawa’s work — her previous projects include a...
View Article#3845: Sam Amidon and Nico Muhly
Vermont-born singer/fiddler/banjoist/guitarist Sam Amidon and composer, arranger, and co-founder of the artist-run Bedroom Community record label Nico Muhly join John Schaefer in the studio for this...
View ArticleO (peratic) Canada!
In the cultural and political hurlyburly that is the United States, we sometimes lose track of our friendly and excelling neighbors to the north.Canadians will shortly celebrate, in their circumspect...
View ArticleWeird Classical: Conductors Who Died at the Podium
Today, it’s a bit cliche to describe something as your “passion.” The word is everywhere on job postings, resumes, dating profiles and countless “about me” sections all over the Internet. But maybe the...
View Article'Norma,' a Bel Canto Masterpiece, Is Here for Saturday at the Opera
On Saturday at 1pm, you can listen in for Norma, Vincenzo Bellini’s veritable bel canto masterpiece. The story of love and betrayal in Roman Gaul was considered by the composer to be his finest work....
View ArticleEpisode 10: The Drug War
As the opioid epidemic continues to increase, we take a look back at the Sixties when the War on Drugs, a federal effort to decrease illegal drug use, was beginning to take shape. It was a decade of...
View ArticleSan Francisco Opera Heats Up
SAN FRANCISCO — It seems that Mark Twain never said that the coldest winter he ever spent was summer in San Francisco. But it can be surprisingly chilly for people who are unprepared. Twain came here...
View ArticleThis Opera Company Stages Performances on a Truck
What would you do if you knew people wanted to go to the opera, but they couldn’t afford it? OperaCamion, a production of Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, thinks you should just bring the show to...
View Article'Carmen,' the Eternal Favorite, Is Your Saturday at the Opera Broadcast
Carmen is universally loved, and you can enjoy it once again on Saturday at 1 pm.Well-known excerpts from the immensely popular opera have found their way into all of pop culture’s many rooms. However,...
View ArticleIt’s The Bomb, Opera Lovers
When I exited LoftOpera’s production of Rossini’s Otello last March, I asked a young woman what she thought of the performance. “It’s the bomb!” she said. I’ve heard this term, and its related “It’s da...
View Article'Eugene Onegin,' a Bleak Look at Missed Opportunities, Is Your Saturday at...
In 1879, Tchaikovsky wrote an operatic adaptation Eugene Onegin, based on a novel by the revered Russian writer Alexander Pushkin. It’s this opera, with its meditations on love, loneliness and shifting...
View ArticleWho Should Receive the Next Kennedy Center Honors?
The recipients of the 2017 Kennedy Center Honors will soon be announced. This is one of the greatest recognitions our nation bestows on its performing artists, many of whom (though not all) were born...
View ArticlePreview: Dvořák's Long Lost 'Dmitrij' is Coming to BardSummerScape Festival
In a world where operatic sequels are all but unknown, Mussorgsky's 1874 Boris Godunov gruffly demands one.The Macbeth-like Tsar Boris is toppled by madness and death, and his successor — who was...
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