For those who might be seeking a representational tale of the legendary Roman slave Spartacus, well, Gladiator this ain’t.
Year: 2010
Opera music part of junk hauler’s treasure trove
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Wozzeck, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theatre, San Francisco
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CosÏ fan tutte, Covent Garden
First seen in 1995, and here receiving its seventh revival, Jonathan Miller’s CosÏ fan tutte has lost none of its power to unsettle and discomfort.
Parsifal on the Cote d’Azur
Parsifal had its first performances in Bayreuth in 1882 where it was soon seen by Wagner’s soul mate Friedrich Nietzsche. And there the friendship ended.
Shohat’s The Child Dreams — A mature work
Gil Shohat, now 35 and Israeli’s top classical composer, was 15 when
in the ‘80s he saw Hanoch Levin’s The Child Dream on stage in his native Tel Aviv. Shohat, of course, knew Levin’s work well, for throughout early decades in the history of Israel he — its outstanding dramatist — had served somewhat as the conscience of a nation tormented defining itself within its pain-wrought beginnings.
Joyce DiDonato, Wigmore Hall
The Wigmore Hall was bursting its seams in excited anticipation of this recital by the American mezzo-soprano, Joyce DiDonato.
Bass-baritone eager to sing at home, in English
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