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• Faust: À Moi Les Plaisirs

  On Saturday, I headed downtown for the penultimate performance of Gounod's Faust, which filled Amore Opera's spring repertory staple slot this year. Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• InsightALT Festival: New Opera from Sketchpad to Stage

  On Thursday, I got to visit the open rehearsals of all three operas which will be performed at this year's InsightALT festival, a series of events under the... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Dialogues Des Carmelites: Il Ne Reste Que l'Agneau De Dieu

  

  I went to the last performance (of only three!) of the run of Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites which closed out the Met's season. Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Fin-de-siècle Fantasies: Renee Fleming, Jeremy Denk, & the Emerson Quartet

  

  Adele Bloch-Bauer I: Gustav Klimt, 1907Saturday, May 4 saw the last night of Renee Fleming's "Perspectives" series at Carnegie Hall, and its inventive... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Nights Like These: Firework-Maker's Daughter

  

  Joy of discovery: Bevan and Pencarreg in The Firework-Maker's Daughter The Firework-Maker's Daughter, an opera composed by David Bruce with a libretto by Glyn... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Fin Ch'han Dal Vino: Don Giovanni with the New York Opera Exchange

  

  Don Giovanni in 1963 The New York Opera Exchange has followed up their inaugural season's Cosi fan tutte with another production of a Mozart/Da Ponte opera... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Song of Norway: Grieg Goes Broadway-style

  

  Danieley, Silber, and Fontana sing of Norway. Photo (c) Erin Baiano On Tuesday night, the eve of May, the Collegiate Chorale presented an appropriately... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Ich Sei Das Weib! Goerke and the Greenwich Village Orchestra

  

  A non-professional orchestra and an international soprano might sound like strange bedfellows, but in Sunday's concert of Wagner selections, Christine Goerke an... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• And the Dark Became Desire: Renée Fleming and the NYPhil at Carnegie Hall

  

  The centerpiece of Friday evening's Carnegie Hall concert was unquestionably Anders Hillborg's The Strand Settings, a song cycle commissioned by the New York... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Giulio Cesare: Dà Pace All'armi!

  

  David McVicar presents Handel's Giulio Cesare as a witty, knowing fable about imperialist projects giving way to cooperation based on mutual respect between... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Interval Adventures: Visiting Verdi Square

  

  Thanks to Italian-American philanthropy of the early twentieth century, Papa Verdi has a square named after him and a statue in his honor at 72nd Street. Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• I Lombardi Alla Prima Crociata: o Nuovo Incanto

  

  The Siege of Jerusalem, 1099 (from a 12th-century chronicle) Verdi's fourth opera, written when he was 29 years old, was penned at a time when Meyerbeer's... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Aspergimi D'issopo e Sarò Mondo: Puccini's "Girl" and Her Gospel

  

  Fanciulla del West's first cast (1910) As I'm a member of a high liturgical tradition, I spent this evening at a Tenebrae service: in a darkened church,... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Eliogabalo: Eccomi Trasformato

  

  That Francesco Cavalli's Eliogabalo survives at all is something of a historical improbability. The experienced and popular operatic composer penned the work... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Bach's Mass in B Minor with the NYPhil

  I have to accept the way [Bach] believed. His music never stops praying.... I do not believe in the Gospels in a literal fashion, but a Bach fugue has the... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Stephanie Blythe Sings the 20th Century at Carnegie Hall

  

  Despite some empty seats, the Monday night audience for Stephanie Blythe and Warren Jones was one of the most warmly enthusiastic I've heard for a vocal recital. Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Don Carlo: Lo Spirto Che Vacilla

  

  Filippo (Furlanetto) mourns what might have been. Frittoli is Elisabetta. Photo (c) Met Opera Yesterday's performance of Don Carlo boasted some fine singing,... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Turn of the Screw: What Goes on in Your Dreams?

  

  Divided loyalties: Miles, the Governess, and Peter Quint in NYCO's Turn of the Screw (Photo (c) Richard Termine) On a cold and rainy night in New York City, an... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Parsifal: Durch Mitleid Wissend

  

  The education of the pure fool: Parsifal, Act I The more I think about Francois Girard's production of Parsifal, the more I am struck by how thoughtful its... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Dialogs and Dualities: Henze and Stockhausen

  

  It's been a good week for German music in NYC. Yesterday I heard the Met's Parsifal (of which more when I've processed it enough for a modicum of emotional... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA