New Camerata Opera’s 2023 Gala features performances by Erik Bagger, Scott Lindroth, Kristin Renee Young, on Sept. 13. Other soloists include Victor Khodadad, Stan Lacy, Eva Parr, Barbara Porto, Jaclyn Randazzo, and Julia Tang. Also on on the program is the premiere of Hilary Purrington and librettist Hannah McDermott’s animated children’s opera “One Train.” Violetta Zabbi conducts. New Camerata Opera produced {…}
New Camerata Opera is set to open its 2021-22 season with “Cav +Pag.” Performances, which are set to be held at The Muse Brooklyn, open on Sept 23. The 90-minute adaptation will retain the most essential elements of each opera and will place the role of “Cavalleria Rusticana’s” Santuzza at the center, with “Pagliacci’s” play-within-a-play paralleling her own crisis. The {…}
New Camerata Opera has announced that it will be unveiling its forthcoming opera film “Julie” on June 4, 2020. The opera film was directed by Chloe Treat and features music by Whitney George to a libretto by Wallis Darke. “Julie” will be presented at 7 p.m. on YouTube before it is entered in film festivals. The work focuses on the {…}
The true tragedy of Benjamin Britten and Ronaldo Duncan’s “The Rape of Lucretia” is that its story, about a virtuous woman in Ancient Rome who is raped by a powerful man, continues to re-enact itself in the modern world. What is arguably most complicated about the opera itself is that this tragedy is framed by the male gaze, which only {…}
In Benjamin Britten and Ronald Duncan’s “The Rape of Lucretia,” a young Roman soldier is goaded into testing the chastity of Lucretia, who was the only woman not to betray her husband Collatinus. This roman soldier, Tarquinius, proceeds to show up at Lucretia’s home, awaken her from bed, and, despite being repeatedly rejected, he rapes her. Lucretia winds up killing {…}
The New York Opera Fest 2019 kicked off on Monday, April 29 and for the next several weeks, New Yorkers will get ample opportunity to enjoy opera in a variety of unique ways. As has been OperaWire’s tradition over the years, we have reached out to a number of the companies participating in the festival and have asked them a {…}
The New Camerata Opera is set to showcase “Heroines of Opera” on March 26, 2019. The event will feature arias and songs that represent the strongest female characters in the world. The performance is expected to be a preview for the company’s hotly anticipated production of “The Rape of Lucretia,” which will be directed by Bea Goodwin and will star {…}