THE BOTTOM LINE: Presented by Brooklyn Opera Works at the Brooklyn School of Music as part of the Summer Vocal Arts series, this modern opera based on the myth of Echo and Narcissus is timeless story about love and death. Written by the 34-year-old P …Read more
In the program notes to the Dell’Arte Opera Ensemble’s production of Don Giovanni, director Owen Horsley mentions the #MeToo movement, and Mozart’s opera about the legendary seducer certainly takes on a new significance in a society replete with clai …Read more
The opera-requiem IYOV fuses Biblical and liturgical texts with an extraordinary exploration of musical ideas from classical to folk to jazz, rock and electronics and practically all the sounds the human voice can make. Part of the 2018 Prototype Fes …Read more
Belgian indie band Dez Mona and Flemish B.O.X. (Baroque Orchestration X) wound up the 2018 Prototype Festival with an encore performance, bringing back their theatrical song cycle Sága after its great success in the 2016 Festival. Titled after Sága, …Read more
Politics. Sex. Love. Secrets. Intrigue. Power. Betrayal. All elements you’d find in a good spy thriller are also to be found in the new opera Fellow Travelers, receiving its New York premiere at the 2018 Prototype Festival. With music, story and perf …Read more
Sarah Rothenberg’s exquisite A Proust Sonata: 7 Tableaux En Musique debuted January 10th at The French Institute’s Florence Gould Hall, produced by Da Camera of Houston Productions. It’s easily the most ravishing event I’ll see this year. If you are …Read more
Four extraordinary women are the visionary producers behind the Prototype Festival: Beth Morrison (President, Beth Morrison Projects), Jecca Barry (Executive Director, Beth Morrison Projects), Kristin Martig (Artistic Director, HERE) and Kim Whitener …Read more
Rinde Eckert defies the conventions of form and structure with his boundary-pushing works which combine opera, musical theatre, film and dance. As a librettist he’s reinvented works of literature, as a composer he’s channeled personal history through …Read more
TESLA, a multidisciplinary opera about inventor Nikola Tesla, who lived around the turn of the 19th century, premieres this week at SoBe Arts in Miami Beach, Florida. Written by Carson Kievman and Thomas Babe, the opera features a cast of internation …Read more
Japan Society celebrates its 110th anniversary and its newly renovated theater with the North American premiere of Four Nights of Dream, a chamber opera by composer Moto Osada; the opera will also be performed in Tokyo at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan perfo …Read more
