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Anna Devin, Soraya Mafi, Andrew Foster-Williams, Andrew Hamilton Headline Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s 2024-25 Season

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The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a rundown of the classical vocal performances on offer. Karl-Heinz Steffens conducts music by Vaughan Williams, Beethoven, and Holst. The program features the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus. Performance Dates: Oct. 2 & 4, 2024 Soprano Anna Devin and baritone Andrew Foster-Williams will be featured in a program that includes works by {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Roulette Intermedium 2025 Review: Celestial Excursions

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(Photo: Whitney Browne)  “Celestial Excursions” by Robert Ashley was featured at Brooklyn’s Roulette Intermedium Sept. 10-12, 2025 and was commissioned by Performing Artservices, Inc. as part of the national series of works of Meet the Composer/Arts Endowment Commissioning Music/USA, which is made possible with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Helen F. Whitaker Fund, and the Catherine {…}
Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q & A: Mimi Johnson, the Founder & Director of Performing Artservices (1972) & Lovely Music (1978), on Robert Ashley’s ‘Celestial Excursions’

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(Credit: Matilde Chambon) Mimi Johnson is founder and director of Performing Artservices (1972) and Lovely Music (1978). She was married to composer Robert Ashley and continues to produce and tour his work, including all of Ashley’s operas, from “Perfect Lives” (1978-81) through “Crash” (2013-15) and “Quicksand “(2011-16). OperaWire reviewed Johnson’s most recent productions of Ashley’s operas, including “Improvement (Don Leaves {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Roulette Intermedium 2024 Review: Robert Ashley’s ‘Foreign Experiences’

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(Photo: Whitney Browne) Brooklyn’s Roulette Intermedium presented Robert Ashley’s “Foreign Experiences” (1994) on Saturday, May 11th, 2024 to an audience full of familiar faces in appreciation of avant-garde and experimental music. This work is part of Ashley’s opera tetralogy, “Now Eleanor’s Idea,” which also includes “Improvement (Don Leaves Linda),” “eL/Aficionado” and the stand-alone opera, “Now Eleanor’s Idea.” I have been {…}
IndieOpera

Roulette to Present ‘Foreign Experiences’

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Brooklyn-based Roulette is set to present Robert Ashley’s “Foreign Experiences” starting on May 9. The three-performance run, which comes to a close on May 11, will be the first full performance of the opera since 1995. The work is part of Ashley’s operatic tetralogy “Now Eleanor,” which dates from the early 1990s. The work follows Don who leaves the Midwest {…}
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Roulette Announces 45th Spring Season

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Roulette, a space for promotion and presentation of contemporary experimental performing arts in Brooklyn has announced its 45th spring season. For the purposes of this article only classical vocal events are included. Lila Meretzky’s “Songs at Night” large-scale new song cycle of the poems of Yiddish-language poet Anna Margolin makes its world premiere. Shelley Washington’s “A Kind of Lung” and {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Roulette 2021 Review: “eL/Aficionado”

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The internationally recognized performance art venue Roulette in Brooklyn is featuring the revival of Robert Ashley’s “eL/Aficionado” and illuminates the vital relevancy of this opera today. Mimi Johnson, as producer, and Tom Hamilton, as music director, revive Ashley’s vision with a new perspective by casting mezzo-soprano Kayleigh Butcher as the Agent. This opera was originally written in 1987 and last {…}
IndieOpera, Streaming

Roulette Intermedium to Present New Production of Robert Ashley’s ‘el/Aficionado’

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On October 21, 2021, Roulette Intermedium will present a new production of the late American composer Robert Ashley’s opera “el/Aficionado.” Written in 1987, the work was last performed in 1995, and is scored for four voices and a pre-recorded electronic orchestra. The cast features mezzo-soprano Kayleigh Butcher in the lead role of Agent, along with Bonnie Lander, Paul Pinto, and {…}
IndieOpera

Performing Artservices, Inc. to Revive ‘eL/Aficionado’ in NYC

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Performing Artservices, Inc. is set to revive “eL/Aficionado,” an opera by Robert Ashley on May 21-24, 2020 at New York Live Arts. The opera, which was written in 1987, has not been performed since 1995. It is scored for four voices and an orchestra of electronic voices and tells the story of a person on trial for her character and {…}

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