Review 2022: We’ve Come to Claim the Throne

https://operawire.com/review-2022-weve-come-to-claim-the-throne/

Pianist/composer Felix Jarrar and soprano Michelle Trovato partnered to stage a themed recital centered on Mary Queen of Scots, titled “We’ve Come to Claim the Throne,” on July 29, 2022, at St. John’s in the Village, New York City. The theme came to Jarrar via soprano Michelle Trovato, who had been thinking for some time about a program focusing on {…}

IndieOpera

NYU Skirball to Present the North American Premiere of Toshio Hosokawa’s ‘Hanjo’

https://operawire.com/nyu-skirball-to-present-the-north-american-premiere-of-toshio-hosokawas-hanjo/

NYU Skirball is set to present the North American premiere of Toshio Hosokawa and Yukio Mishima’s “Hanjo” on Sept. 30 and Oct. 2, 2022, at NYU Skirball. Produced by Catapult Opera and directed by Italian choreographer Luca Veggetti, Hosokawa’s “Hanjo” is based on a 14th-century Noh play and is considered a fine example of Japanese storytelling by one of the country’s {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

The Whitney Biennial 2022 Review: Raven Chacon’s ‘For Zitkála-Šá’

https://operawire.com/the-whitney-biennial-2022-review-raven-chacons-for-zitkala-sa/

Raven Chacon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, performer, and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation, composed a series of 13 scores as portraits dedicated to different contemporary American Indian, First Nations, or Mestiza women working in music performance, composition, or sound art. Currently on view in the 2022 Whitney Biennial, this work creates space for better understanding the Yankton Dakota {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Royal College of Music 2021-22 Review: Flight

https://operawire.com/royal-college-of-music-2021-22-review-flight/

On June 28th, amidst the calmness of a beautiful evening in London, held within the palatial confines of Britten Theater, the Royal College of Music Opera Studio performed Jonathan Dove’s third opera “Flight,” a humorous yet weighty story story about the going-ons of eight individuals at an airport terminal. Although a student production, you wouldn’t have known this at all {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Fotografiska 2022 Review: Jeff Beal’s ‘Things Unseen’ and ‘The Paper Lined Shack’

https://operawire.com/fotografiska-2022-review-jeff-beals-things-unseen-and-the-paper-lined-shack/

Photo: Fritz Myers On June 17, 2022, at New York’s Fotografiska, Jeff Beal’s “The Paper Lined Shack,” received its New York and string quartet premiere, along with the world premiere of the composer’s “Things Unseen” for string quartet. And though “Things Unseen” is an instrumental work, it’s worth some words. The piece sets up “The Paper Lined Shack” by acquainting {…}

Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q & A: Composer Zaid Jabri on the Process of Composing ‘Southern Crossings’

https://operawire.com/q-a-composer-zaid-jabri-on-the-process-of-composing-southern-crossings/

On June 16 and 18, 2022, audiences in New York City will get the opportunity to witness the world premiere of “Southern Crossings.” The work, set to a libretto by Yvette Christiansë and Rosalind Morris, centers on the story of the meeting between famed astronomer John Hershel and Charles Darwin and how different characters experienced and hoped that that meeting {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Building the Sorceress – Conductor David Bates & Mezzo-Soprano Madeleine Shaw on a New Approach to Purcell’s Iconic ‘Dido and Aeneas’

https://operawire.com/building-the-sorceress-conductor-david-shaw-mezzo-soprano-madeleine-shaw-on-a-new-approach-to-purcells-iconic-dido-and-aeneas/

Perhaps no other figure in the history of the baroque period was so transformative, productive, and instrumental in the development of England’s musical heritage than Henry Purcell. He was a composer whose legacy is, somewhat remarkably, both famous and forgotten the world round. Having been born into a musical family—beginning his musical career as a boy chorister at the Chapel {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Bristol New Music Festival 2022 Review: Aine O’Dwyer’s ‘Song of Place’

https://operawire.com/bristol-new-music-festival-2022-review-aine-odwyers-song-of-place/

What is our relationship to music? Do we know what music is? Have we listened to the world around us as we probably should? When was the last time we just stopped and began to “hear?” Questions like these draw us out of our realities and into realms of musicking that seem entirely foreign to the conventional methods of listening {…}

Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Two Lands & an Unquenchable Curiosity – Composer Huang Ruo and his Music

https://operawire.com/two-lands-an-unquenchable-curiosity-composer-huang-ruo-and-his-music/

Chinese-born composer Huang Ruo, gifted with the ability to transcend the conventional lines between East and West through aesthetics and cultural symbolism, uses his music to inspire and question assumptions about Western culture, exoticism, and the notion of musical and cultural otherness. Instead of conveying two cultures through music, his compositions are informed by life experiences from two distinct worlds {…}

338 search results for…

Review 2022: We’ve Come to Claim the Throne

NYU Skirball to Present the North American Premiere of Toshio Hosokawa’s ‘Hanjo’

The Whitney Biennial 2022 Review: Raven Chacon’s ‘For Zitkála-Šá’

Royal College of Music 2021-22 Review: Flight

Fotografiska 2022 Review: Jeff Beal’s ‘Things Unseen’ and ‘The Paper Lined Shack’

Q & A: Composer Zaid Jabri on the Process of Composing ‘Southern Crossings’

Building the Sorceress – Conductor David Bates & Mezzo-Soprano Madeleine Shaw on a New Approach to Purcell’s Iconic ‘Dido and Aeneas’

Bristol New Music Festival 2022 Review: Aine O’Dwyer’s ‘Song of Place’

Two Lands & an Unquenchable Curiosity – Composer Huang Ruo and his Music