If anything is more all-American than baseball, it just might be Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, which scored a triumphant home run for the Glimmerglass Festival.
Month: August 2017
Glimmerglass: Too Much to Handel?
A funny thing happened on the way to Glimmerglass Festival’s stylish Xerxes.
Glimmerglass: Well-Realized Rarity
It is hard to believe that an opera by Donizetti is receiving its American premiere at the 2017 Glimmerglass Festival, but such is the case with The Siege of Calais.
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in Salzburg
The well-to-do merchant life of the opera’s small Russian town of Czarist times translocated to a monumental, socialistically heroic, concrete slum block.
Cooperstown and the Hood
Glimmerglass Festival continues its string of world premiere youth operas with a wholly enchanting production of Ben Moore and Kelly Rourke’s Robin Hood.
Glimmerglass Oklahoma: Yeow!
Director Molly Smith knew just how to best succeed at staging the evergreen classic Oklahoma! for Glimmerglass Festival.
La pietra del paragone in Pesaro
Impeccable casting — see photos. Three new generation Italian buffos brought startling new life to Pier Luigi Pizzi’s 2002 production of Rossini’s first major comedy (La Scala, 1812).
An Invitation to Travel: Christiane Karg and Malcolm Martineau at the Proms
German soprano Christiane Karg invited us to accompany her on a journey during this lunchtime chamber music Prom at Cadogan Hall as she followed the voyages of French composers in Europe and beyond, and their return home.
Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder at the Proms – Sir Simon Rattle
Prom 46: Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder with Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra, Simon O’Neill, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Karen Cargill, Peter Hoare, Christopher Purves and Thomas Quasthoff. And three wonderful choirs – the CBSO Chorus, the London Symphony Chorus and OrfeÛ Catal‡ from Barcelona, with Chorus Master Simon Halsey, Rattle’s close associate for 35 years.
Le SiËge de Corinthe in Pesaro
That of Rossini (in French) and that of Lord Byron (in English, Russian, Italian and Spanish), the battles of both Negroponte (1470) and of Missolonghi (1826) re-enacted amidst massive piles of plastic water bottles (thousands of them) that collapsed onto the heroine at Mahomet II’s destruction of Corinth.