Greek National Opera & Neon’s Commission ‘Bleat’ to Premiere at the New York Film Festival

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(Photo of Emma Stone in Bleat by Yorgos Lanthimos) The Greek National Opera has announced that Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’s short film “Bleat” will receive its United States premiere at the 61st New York Film Festival. The film features music by J. S. Bach/Knut Nystedt and Toshio Hokosawa, which will be performed by a live music ensemble for the premiere {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Metropolitan Opera 2022-2023 Review: L’Elisir d’Amore (Cast B)

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On April 13, 2023, the Metropolitan Opera opened its April run of Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore.” Bartlett Sher’s 2012 production was met with new life thanks to a number of stunning debuts from the cast. The staging itself presents a view of Italy during unification which neither rebukes nor flatters the historical context of the work, leaving an authentic, if understated, {…}

Editorials

Criticism on Fridays: The Voices Raised Against the Coming Changes At the MET

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In this crazy and cruel world, stay classy and go to the opera. We are proud opera lovers, standing for the high art, for the most sophisticated art form. We want to preserve the heritage, and keep it great. We don’t follow the modern global market trends. Or do we? Every time Google releases a new version of its Operation {…}

DVD and CD Releases, News

Cyrille Dubois, Benjamin Appl & Eleonora Buratto Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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As part of this week’s CD / DVD releases, audiences will get to hear rarely performed works, a Rossini album, a documentary, a streamed opera, and a solo album by one of the great tenors of his generation. George Walker The fifth audio release on The Cleveland Orchestra’s own label showcased Music Director Franz Welser-Möst performing music by American composer {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Metropolitan Opera 2022-23 Review: Idomeneo

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For the second straight night, the Metropolitan Opera orchestra was at its peak level. After an incredibly immersive opening night performing in Cherubini’s “Medea,” the ensemble, under the musical direction of Manfred Honeck nearly outdid itself. From the thunderous overture all the way to the final triumphant march, Honeck had the ensemble surging forward with unbridled passion and a {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Bayreuth Festival 2022 Review: Tristan und Isolde

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While taking in a divisive production of “Der Ring des Nibelungen,” it was quite refreshing to take in the August 12 performance of “Tristan und Isolde” and come away hearing deserved bravos and cheers. While most productions are usually planned years in advance, director Roland Schwab was only commissioned to take on this a new production of Wagner’s masterpiece in {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

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

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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 {…}

News

Opera Philadelphia Announces First Annual Opera on Film Series

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Opera Philadelphia has announced its first annual opera on film series. The event will be part of the O 2022 Festival and will show 30 cinematic operas over 12 screenings at the Philadelphia Film Center. Opera on Film will be presented from Tuesday, Sept. 27 through Sunday, Oct. 2 and will feature a big-screen binge of the operatic art form’s {…}

Special Features

Page to Opera Stage: Destruction of Self in Thomas Mann’s & Benjamin Britten’s ‘Death in Venice’

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“Page to Opera Stage” looks at stories – real-life or fiction, old and new – that have inspired operas, and the ways these narratives have been edited and dramatized to fit a new medium. In this instalment, Thomas Mann’s “Death in Venice” proved the inspiration for a very different opera It is often said all writers draw from their own {…}

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Greek National Opera & Neon’s Commission ‘Bleat’ to Premiere at the New York Film Festival

Metropolitan Opera 2022-2023 Review: L’Elisir d’Amore (Cast B)

Criticism on Fridays: The Voices Raised Against the Coming Changes At the MET

Cyrille Dubois, Benjamin Appl & Eleonora Buratto Lead New CD/DVD Releases

Metropolitan Opera 2022-23 Review: Idomeneo

Bayreuth Festival 2022 Review: Tristan und Isolde

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

Opera Philadelphia Announces First Annual Opera on Film Series

Page to Opera Stage: Destruction of Self in Thomas Mann’s & Benjamin Britten’s ‘Death in Venice’