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Author: Gary Hoffman
Bluebeard’s Castle, Munich
Last year the world’s opera companies presented only nine staged runs of BÈla BartÚk’s Bluebeard’s Castle.
Charlie Parker’s Yardbird at Seattle
It appears that Charlie Parker’s Yardbird has reached the end of its road in Seattle. Since it opened in 2015 at Opera Philadelphia it has played Arizona, Atlanta, Chicago, New York, and the English National Opera.
Santtu-Matias Rouvali makes versatile debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Finnish conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali has been making waves internationally for some time. The chief conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra is set to take over from Esa-Pekka Salonen as principal conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in 2021.
Seductively morbid – The Fall of the House of Usher in The Hague
What does it feel like to be depressed? “It’s like water seeping into my heart” is how one young sufferer put it.
Coquettes, Wives, and Widows: Gender Politics in French Baroque Opera and Theater
A revelatory study of how composers and dramatists of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France criticized and trivialized independent women in their portrayals of them in works of theater and opera.
The New Season at the New National Theatre, Tokyo
Professional opera in Japan is roughly a century old. When the Italian director and choreographer Giovanni Vittorio Rosi (1867-1940) mounted a production of Cavalleria Rusticana in Italian in Tokyo in 1917, with Japanese singers, he brought a period of timid experimentation and occasional student performances to an end.
What to Make of Tosca at La Scala
La Scala’s season opened last week with Tosca. This was perhaps the preeminent event in Italian cultural and social life: paparazzi swarmed politicians, industrialists, celebrities and personalities, while almost three million Italians watched a live broadcast on RAI 1. Milan was still buzzing nine days later, when I attended the third performance of the run.
Charles Wuorinen: June 9, 1938 – March 11, 2020
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