Fall Preview: Opera Philadelphia’s Festival O18 begins with Sky on Swings and we recommend checking out Glass Handel. David Lang’s Mile Long Opera is sold out. Nico Muhly’s Marnie at the MET, and Satyagraha comes to BAM. NOTES We are looking forward to many this this fall. In upcoming OperaFix episodes you will be hearing […]
Author: Peter Szep
Opera Fix September 10, 2018
Chuck Sachs interviews Lembit Beecher Composer of Sky on Swings, which will premier September 20 – 29, 2018 as part of Philadelphia Opera’s festival O 2018. SKY ON SWINGS, a new chamber opera Lembit Beecher, composer Hannah Moscovitch, librettist Joanna Settle, director Geoffrey McDonald, conductor Opera Philadelphia, commissioned and producing world premiere O18 Festival (performances […]
Podcast 53: Missy Mazzoli and Melissa Smey—Proving Up
Missy Mazzoli and Melissa Smey join Peter, Brooke & Walker to talk about the New York premiere of Mazzoli & Vavrek’s chamber opera, PROVING UP this September 26 & 28, Miller Theater at Columbia University as well as other works by Mazzoli and the new Chamber Opera Initiative of Miller Theater. NOTES Brooke Tanglewood Festival […]
Podcast 52: Opera Theater of St. Louis, Opera Saratoga, Women Composers and dell’Arte Opera Ensemble
Peter, Brooke & Chuck engage in an rousing roundtable about opera productions from near and far, including Opera Theater of St. Louis, Opera Saratoga and the Mostly Mozart Festival, as well as the Recipients of the Commissioning Grants for Women Composers NOTES WHAT WE’VE SEEN: Brooke Bernstein’s MASS at Mostly Mozart Festival Eighth Grade, a […]
OperaFix, July 16, 2018
Check out Summer Festivals at Bard Summerscape, Bard Music Festival, Cincinnati Opera, Chautauqua Opera Festival, Cincinnati Opera Summer Festival, and the Glimmerglass Festival. Check out Summer Festivals at Bard Summerscape, Bard Music Festival, Cincinnati Opera, Chautauqua Opera Festival, Cincinnati Opera Summer Festival, and the Glimmerglass Festival. Bard Music Festival Mozart and Salieri Rimsky-Korsakov. Bard Summerscape. […]