Grace Galu, Composer/MD & Baba Israel, Librettist/Co-Director. July 14 -31, Tuesday-Saturday 8:30pm, Saturday & Sunday 4:00pm. Commissioned, Developed and Produced by HERE, Co-Presented by La MaMa. 120 minutes with intermission (Cannabis originally planned to open its run during HERE and BMP’s PROTOTYPE Festival on January 7, 2022. Due to COVID, the 2022 Festival and all…Continue reading operaFix: Cannabis! A Viper Vaudeville
Author: Peter Szep
Show 90: Part 2 – OPERA America Discovery Grant 2020 Recipients
The Indie Opera Podcast is releasing part two of an episode that was recorded in the Spring of 2020 that got derailed during the start of the pandemic and features all the composer/librettist teams to receive the 2020 OPERA America Discovery Grants which support composers who identify as women in the development of new operatic…Continue reading Show 90: Part 2 – OPERA America Discovery Grant 2020 Recipients
Show 89 Part 1 – OPERA America Discovery Grant 2020 Recipients
The Indie Opera Podcast is releasing an episode which was recorded in the Spring of 2020 that got derailed during the start of the pandemic, and features all the composer/librettist teams to receive the 2020 OPERA America Discovery Grants which support composers who identify as women in the development of new operatic works and the…Continue reading Show 89 Part 1 – OPERA America Discovery Grant 2020 Recipients
Review: Simon Bore the Cross
by Gregory Moomjy As a die-hard classical music fan, the phrase “museum piece” drives me crazy. I hate the fact that the general public has this idea that classical music is simply a bunch of old pieces from hundreds of years ago that get dusted off again and again and again to be played exactly the…Continue reading Review: Simon Bore the Cross
Review: Lucia Di Lammermoor
By Gregory Moomjy Anyone who knows me, knows the story about how I was three years old when I was introduced to opera by a VHS tape of the magic flute as I was recovering from major back surgery. However, what I typically don’t tell them, is that after that fateful introduction my grandfather took…Continue reading Review: Lucia Di Lammermoor