The Lighthouse International Film Society will host a public screening of “The Anatomy of the Ecce Homo” on Thursday, Nov. 20. The hour-long Spanish-language documentary, presented with English subtitles, revisits the 2012 “Ecce Homo” fresco restoration incident and examines how Fowler + Flack’s comic opera “Behold The Man” became part of the story’s unexpected cultural legacy. The film traces the {…}
And we’re back. And as has become the tradition here at OperaWire, we have asked our writers to select their choices for the opera performances that truly marveled them in 2023. So without further ado, here are our writers’ picks. Enjoy! Joao Copertino This year, in my opinion, the best performance was Aix-en-Provence’s “Picture a Day Like This,” a world premiere {…}
Photo credit: © Richard Brusky “Behold the Man” made its world premiere at the Nicholas J. Horn Theatre for Opera Las Vegas’ 25th season on September 30th and October 1st, 2023. What began as a curious and fun project between creative team members, composer Paul Fowler, librettist Andrew Flack and producer Barbara Duff, has now evolved into something beyond their {…}
In 1930, Spanish painter Elías García Martínez created a fresco of Jesus crowned with thorns in the Santuary of Mercy Church in Borja. It was called “Ecce Homo” or “Behold the Man.” Eighty-two years later, Cecilia Giménez, an 81-year-old amateur artist with minimal training, revealed to the media that she had attempted to restore the painting which had been affected {…}
Opera Las Vegas is set to stage the world premiere of “Behold The Man,” a comic opera by composer Paul Fowler and librettist Andrew Flack, on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, 2023, at the Horn Theater on the College of Southern Nevada campus in North Las Vegas. The opera is based on the true story of Cecilia Giménez‘s botched restoration {…}