Mark Adamo joins us to discuss his holiday opera “Becoming Santa Claus”, which was performed at Dallas Opera and is now out on DVD and BluRay. NOTES Memento Mori produced by Manual Cinema at BAM Fisher Montclair Peak Performances An Infrasound Opera by Ashley Fure “The Force of Things” An experimental music-theater piece performed by…Continue reading Episode 43: Mark Adamo’s Becoming Santa Claus
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OperaFix October 23, 2017
Get your weekly Opera Fix! NOTES HAPPENING THIS WEEK Premier of Exterminating Angels – Metropolitan Opera Grinder opera in Orlando Hearbeat Opera All the World’s A Drag Edmonton Opera Lilies (Les Feluettes) by librettist Michel Marc Bouchard and composer Kevin March October 24 and 27 The story is set in a prison in 1952, where…Continue reading OperaFix October 23, 2017
OperaFix October 16, 2017
Get your weekly Opera Fix! NOTES The Golden Dragon Hackney Empire Has been Cancelled due to poor casting decisions Be Part of Opera Week Friday, October 27 – Sunday, November 5 Submit your activitieson the National Opera Week site so that they’re included in the nationwide public calendar of events. You can also take part…Continue reading OperaFix October 16, 2017
OperaFix October 9, 2017
Get your weekly Opera Fix! NOTES The Hubble Cantata LA Opera Paola Prestini Royce Vavrek Nathan Gunn Jessica Rivera Ford Theatres Oct 11 Eddie’s Stone Song: Odyssey of the First Pasaquoyan Eddie Owens Martin Michelle Murphy DeBruyn, soprano Buena Vista, GA Oct 14 ALL THE WORLD’S A DRAG! Shakespeare in love …with opera Heartbeat Opera…Continue reading OperaFix October 9, 2017
Episode 42: Matthew Aucoin’s “Crossing”
Matthew Aucoin joins us in the studio to talk about “Crossing”, his opera about the Civil War experiences of Walt Whitman, and we recap Opera Philadelphia’s festival O17, Sweeney Todd at the Barrow Street Theater, and “Norma” at the Metropolitan Opera. NOTES Norma Metropolitan Opera The Star Spangled Banner Sondra Radvanovsky, soprano Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano…Continue reading Episode 42: Matthew Aucoin’s “Crossing”