Enterprising Opera Philadelphia has included a couple of intriguing site-specific events in their O17 Festival line-up.
Author: john_y
Philadelphia: Putting On Great Opera Can Be Murder
Composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell have gifted Opera Philadelphia (and by extension, the world) with a crackling and melodious new stage piece, Elizabeth Cree.
Glimmerglass Being Judgmental
There was a sense of event about the closing performance of Derrick Wang’s Scalia/Ginsberg for days in advance.
American Masterpiece Conquers Cooperstown
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.
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.
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.
Santa Fe: Entertaining If Not Exactly (R)evolutionary
You know what I loved best about Santa Fe Opera’s world premiere The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs?
Full-throated Cockerel at Santa Fe
A tale of a lazy, befuddled world leader that ‘has no clothes on’ and his two dimwit sons, hmmmm, what does that remind me of. . .?