Upon its premiere at Chicagoís Lyric Opera in 1997 Anthony Davisí Amistad found little critical favor. Its undisciplined excesses led one writer to compare it to a high-school pageant.
Author: Gary Hoffman
Books ‘n Things
Two excellent books on opera have come to hand, providing many hours of entertaining reading. I combine notice of them with a few thoughts about composer Paul Moravecís CDs, and his forthcoming opera premiere at Santa Fe Opera in 2009.
Burly and Savage, but Elegant: Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
http://www.nysun.com/arts/burly-and-savage-but-elegant-met-orchestra/78599/
Opera Meets Animation to Tell a Chinese Tale
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/arts/music/26monk.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin
Die Bassariden, Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c7c2a9b2-2b41-11dd-a7fc-000077b07658.html
Eugene Onegin, Glyndebourne Festival, UK
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2c1eb0d8-28e3-11dd-96ce-000077b07658.html
Merry Widow at ENO
In these days of ‘concept’ productions, it is rare that the curtain goes up on the first act of an opera and it looks exactly as one might reasonably expect it to.
Masterpiece Masterfully Rendered in Toronto
I can still remember my first ever ìPelleas et Melisandeî in my first ever outing at San Francisco Opera during my first ever visit to that beautiful town.
An Interview with Allen Anderson
By Tom Moore
Composer Allen Anderson will be familiar to aficionados of contemporary
music through various works released on CRI, or those in the Research
Triangle through his presence in the new music scene here in North Carolina,
where he has taught at UNC since 1996.