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Operagasm Exclusive Review: NYCO L’elisir d’amore
by Sarah Heisler There is so much going on onstage in New York City Opera’s revival of Jonathan Miller’s production of L’elisir d’amore, that only by the second act does it become clear that you’ve been listening to some truly talented voices sing one of the best loved operas in the repertoire. Updating the action [...]
NYCO’s Monodrama is Contagious!
by Christie Connolley NYCO’s triple bill of 20th century opera (most of you won’t recognize these operas, although you may nod knowingly while adjusting your glasses and act like you are familiar, we both know you are not) including Zorn’s La Machine de l’etre, Schoenberg’s Erwartung (I would accept a furrowed brow or stroke of [...]
NEW YORK CITY OPERA ANNOUNCES 2011 VOX LINE-UP
12th Annual VOX Contemporary American Opera Lab Expands to Second Venue at Le Poisson Rouge Two Librettos Selected from VOX’s Words First Librettist Program Tickets to Be Sold at $25 and $15 (New York, NY, February 15, 2011)New York City Opera today announced its celebrated annual new music festival, VOX Contemporary American Opera Lab, will [...]
A New Beginning Anew
*sniffle, sniffle* Such great memories… This article by one of New York City Opera’s stage directors, A. Scott Parry was our FIRST guest article ever! January being our birth month of publication, the theme was fitting: New Beginnings. The following article discusses the importance of keeping your art fresh. From the perspective of a director [...]
Critics Can’t Keep Quiet About ‘A Quiet Place’
by Melissa Wimbish Part II of Trouble in Tahiti is Leonard Bernstein’s A Quiet Place which made its New York premiere on Saturday, October 27th. See what the critics called “merely tedious,” “one brilliantly composed piece,” “lumbering,” and “vibrant”…It’s like a contradiction sandwich! Click here for the full review!
NYC Opera Presents Parallel Perceptions, Exhibition of Contemporary Art
Works by Charles Ray, Pipilotti Rist, Tina Barney, Isaac Julien, Dash Snow and Kehinde Wiley Illustrate the 2010-2011 Opera Season Free Public Viewing Wednesday, November 3, from 6 to 9pm Beginning on October 27, New York City Opera will present Parallel Perceptions, a contemporary art exhibition that features the works of six [...]
Going to Lincoln Center? Break out your hairnet and bug spray!
by Christie Connolley Lincoln Center, like most of New York City, is under attack. The enemy is vicious, relentless…. and tiny. First it was Bloomingdales, then Ambercrombie & Kent, then Victoria’s Secret, onto Fox News (which I am actually okay with), then the enemy had a craving for music… sweet music. The infamous bedbugs have [...]
CalArts Presents the World Premiere of John King’s Opera Dice Thrown
The California Institute of the Arts presents the World Premiere of Dice Thrown, a contemporary opera composed and conceptualized by John King with Musical Direction by Marc Lowenstein (Faculty, The Herb Alpert School of Music) and Choreography by Stephan Koplowitz (Dean, The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance). Inspired by Stéphane Mallarmé’s poem Un Coup [...]
NY City Opera still innovative with ‘L’Etoile’
by Erica Papillion-Posey I would see this production from the whimsical, Laurel and Hardy look of the staging alone. “Emmanuel Chabrier has long been remembered primarily for his orchestral work España, but in recent years the spotlight has shifted to L’Étoile, his three-act gem of a comic opera. The work’s charming contours are revealed in Mark [...]
New York City Opera and 20th Century Opera
20th-Century Opera Takes Center Stage in New York City Opera’s 2010-2011 Season Season features New York premieres, in new productions, of Leonard Bernstein’s A Quiet Place and Stephen Schwartz’s Séance on a Wet Afternoon; a daring triple bill of Monodramas (including the US stage premiere of “Neither” by Morton Feldman and Samuel Beckett, and the [...]
