Friday, June 7, 2019
For those of us who couldn't wait to hear mezzo Joyce DiDonato in a fully staged performance of Handel's AGRIPPINAheading to Covent Garden in September and the Met in February in different p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:40PMMonday, June 3, 2019
It's been quite a ride, says Kim Reed, co-librettist, filmmaker--and inspiration--for AS ONE, the chamber opera by Laura Kaminsky, with co-librettist Mark Campbell. The work's 27th productio…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:51AMThe spectacularly musical, touchingly dramatic, surprisingly funny and profoundly moving chamber opera, AS ONE, by Laura Kaminsky, Kimberly Reed and Mark Campbell, made its long-overdue retu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:51AMSaturday, May 25, 2019
For me, concert-going in Barcelona is not simply hearing a singer like Diana Damrau bring beauty and insights to the music of great composers, but where you get to hear her perform this magi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:04PMMonday, May 6, 2019
The line between Broadway-type musical theatre and opera becomes finer by the year--though I dare say that TOOTSIE is unlikely to be showing up at the Met any time soon. But the Kurt Weill-I…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:21PMYou'd never know that the Met's production of Francis Poulenc's DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES is over 40 years old, except for a few giveaways. There are no dancing nuns, no nudity, no screeching…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:21PMThursday, April 11, 2019
Audacious can mean daring--and Belgian director Ivo van Hove certainly fits that description for his approaches to Arthur Miller's A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE and THE CRUCIBLE and numerous other …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:18AMHelen of Troy didn't launch a thousand ships but was a put-upon sexual victim and Marilyn Monroe--born Norma Jeane Baker, of the title--was a cloud in the shape of a woman. It was also a dis…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:16AMFriday, April 5, 2019
Was the pairing of Iain Bell and Mark Campbell--respectively, composer and librettist of New York City Opera's (NYCO) world premiere STONEWALL--"love at first sight"? I asked them.
We wer…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:57PMJudging by the number of small opera companies in New York alone--see the 2019 New York Opera Fest that starts performances next month--there's no shortage of up and coming opera singers try…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:52PMWhile the cast for the season's revival of Mozart's LA CLEMENZA DI TITO looked good on paper, it didn't even hint at how good the singing was going to be at the Met this week. From toptenor …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:50PMSunday, February 3, 2019
According to a quote attributed to Andy Warhol, if you want to tell a good painting from a bad one, first look at a thousand paintings; then you'll realize that there are no hard and fast ru…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:21PMThursday, December 27, 2018
Well, it's that time of the year again--time for a look-back on what was worth making note of during the calendar year that's about to come to an end. It's from a totally personal, subjectiv…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:00PMSunday, October 28, 2018
The traffic in midtown Manhattan was its usual horror at lunchtime last Fridayand Anna Netrebko was stuck in it. She was on the way to Cipriani 42nd Street, across from Grand Central Station…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:50PMFriday, October 19, 2018
When the Met's literary advisor asked Nicholas Wright what he thought about doing the libretto for MARNIE, he said yes because he was really interested in working with composer Nico Muhly an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:21PMAnyone who was expecting the equivalent of Bette Midler's arrival as Dolly in the Harmonia Gardens when Jonas Kaufmann finally returned to the Met, on October 17, after four years and some h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:20PMSaturday, September 29, 2018
Well, no one could accuse the opening of the Met's new season, with Darko Trasnjak's production of Saint-Saens' SAMSON ET DALILA, to Ferdinand Lemaire's libretto, of being drab. Starry, cert…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:56PMWhether from disease, 19th century #MeToo-style abuse, or unrequited love, Opera Philadelphia's (OP) Festival O18 opening weekend showed us three ways that central female characters lost the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:56PMSaturday, August 18, 2018
Lincoln Center's MOSTLY MOZART FESTIVAL is over for the season and finished up with a program that was an oddity because it wasn't mostly Mozart (or no Mozart) but all Mozart. Well, hooray f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:22AM“In Rigoletto we're dealing with abuse of women, male power, rape, murder. Obviously, the stories carry an unbelievable weight to them,” says Jonathon Loy, who's not only the stage direc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:22AMWednesday, July 25, 2018
None of the three pieces that I saw at the Glimmerglass Festival near Cooperstown, NY, last weekend was exactly what it seemed to be: Is CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN a fairy story or a cautionary ta…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:59PMYes, it's still the Leonard Bernstein centennial (actually, his birthdate was August 25, 1918) and what better way to celebrate than at the Glimmerglass Festival with WEST SIDE STORY.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:53PMTuesday, July 10, 2018
When Sondheim was asked was asked about whether his great SWEENEY TODD was a musical or an opera, he once responded, When it's done in a theatre, it's a musical. When it's done in an opera h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:40PMTuesday, April 24, 2018
When the radiant, intellectual soprano Julia Bullock stepped on stage Carnegie Hall's intimate venue, Weill Recital Hall (just 268 seats), to wild applause, I felt like I was the only one he…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:07AMSunday, April 22, 2018
The Juilliard School pulled out all the stops for Stephen Wadsworth's production of 1733's HIPPOLYTE ET ARICIE by Jean-Philippe Rameau this week. Gorgeously designed by Charlie Corcoran with…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:15PMWhen tenor Lawrence Brownlee--he of the sweet, cultured tones and ringing high Cs--was first asked to put a recital together by Carnegie Hall, he chose Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe (A Poet…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:14PMMonday, January 15, 2018
Even if it were just for its history lesson about the "lavender scare" of the '50s-- the witch hunt and the mass firings of gay men and women from the federal government during the McCarthy …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:58PMTuesday, January 9, 2018
With less than a week until the opening of New York's PROTOTYPE 2018, I was Skype-ing with the producers--no, not Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick--but Jecca Barry (of Beth Morrison Project…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:08PMFriday, January 5, 2018
The trials and tribulations of the Met's new take on Puccini's TOSCA have been well documented--with all three principals replaced along with two conductors--and it would be nice to be able …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMFriday, November 10, 2017
It's 'deja vu all over again' goes the quip attributed to the NY Yankees pitcher Yogi Berra. But that's the feeling I had with Thomas Ades's THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL, with libretto based on t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:15PMLincoln Center's White Light Festival devoted a pair of evenings last week to a staged performance of Pergolesi's gorgeous hymn to Mary, STABAT MATER, directed by choreographer Jessica Lang …
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