The past few years have marked a renaissance in Brooklyn’s cultural life, from food to fashion, and quite notably, opera. From BAM to Bushwick, audiences have crowded in for a taste of something different.
Year: 2015
Arizona Opera Premieres K·lm·n’s Arizona Lady
Arizona Lady is the last operetta that Hungarian Jewish composer Emmerich K·lm·n (1882-1953) wrote. A student at the Budapest Academy of Music, he learned from the same teachers as BÈla BartÛk and Zolt·n Kod·ly. After successfully staging an operetta in Budapest, K·lm·n moved to Vienna.
The Met’s First Five Productions
The only thing that is at all radical or even noteworthy about the current Metropolitan Opera season is its imbalance: five Donizetti operas to one Wagner.
Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar at REDCAT
On October 8, 2015, Los Angeles Opera presented Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt at REDCAT, the Roy and Edna Disney Cal Arts Theater in Walt Disney Concert Hall. The opera was part of L A O’s “Off Grand Program” which features chamber works in spaces smaller than the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
Loft Opera Presents an Evening of Excellent Ensembles, No Beer Required
Loft Opera has been hailed as the future of opera by multiple newspapers, magazines, and blogs across the nation, and even said to be “in the process of reinventing opera for the 21st Century” according to James Jorden from The New York Observer.
Mark Stone — Oxford Lieder Festival
‘Lieder v. Opera’? At first glance it might seem to be a pointless or nonsensical question.
The Tales of Hoffmann — English Touring Orchestra
Jacques Offenbach’s opÈra fantastique, The Tales of Hoffmann, is a notoriously Protean beast: the composer’s death during rehearsals, four months before the premiere left the opera in an ‘non-definitive’ state which has since led to the acts being shuffled like cards, music being added, spoken dialogue and recitative vying for supremacy, the number of singers performing the principal roles varying, and even changes to the story itself — the latter being an amalgam of three tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann.
Rhymes With Opera Presents New Opera About Dolly Parton Fans
Extreme Dolly Parton fans may sound like unlikely subjects for an opera, but they are the major characters in Heartbreak Express, a collaboration of composer George Lam and librettist John Clum.
Lucia di Lammermoor in San Francisco
First it was Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva who cancelled in Zurich (no longer in her voice), then it was . . .
Atsuto Sawakami — Sponsor of Italian Opera in Japan
Atsuto Sawakami is a slightly built man in his late sixties with impeccable, gentlemanly manners. He communicates a certain restless energy and his piercingly bright eyes reveal an undimmed appetite for life.