(Photo credit: Richard Hubert Smith) Britten Pears Arts has released the details of its Autumn 2024 season. Only opera and vocal events are included in this article. Singers and instrumentalists from the Composition and Performance course present Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire” in a masterclass led by soprano Claire Booth and conductor Jonathan Berman. Performance Date: September 17, 2024 (Peter Pears Recital {…}
(Photo credit: Alastair Muir) The Los Angeles Philharmonic will present the U.S. Premiere of “Last Days,” Oliver Leith and Matt Copson’s opera based on Gus van Sant’s 2005 film of the same name. The opera, which premiered at the Royal Opera House in 2022, follows a fictional account based on the death of Kurt Cobain. Agathe Rousselle plays Blake, who {…}
(Photo: Marc Brenner) The world of spies, subterfuge, and assassination has long been grist to the operatic mill. Scarpia runs the secret police in “Tosca”; Paolo poisons Boccanegra in Verdi’s Venetian drama of political intrigue; Leonora infiltrates a prison disguised as a man in “Fidelio”. So a contemporary tale like that of dissident and former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned {…}