(Photo: Studio B12) The advertising poster for the Cremona Monteverdi Festival’s production of “L’Orfeo” included the picture “Happy Hours” by Jean Lecointre. It depicts a woman with continuous streams of tears pouring from her eyes into a glass of wine, or does it? Could it be the reverse situation? Maybe the streams are moving in the opposite direction from the {…}
(Credit: Jiyang Chen) It was a carnival. It was a class act. It was a festival. Yes, Jakub Jósef Orliński and Il Pomo d’Oro landed in UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall for CAL Performances, and their performance was all those things. The 10 musicians of Il Pomo d’Oro entered the darkly-lit stage dressed in black satin coats. They took to their {…}
(Credit: Chris Singer) Only seven days before the COVID-19 pandemic fell on our heads, American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato was in New York portraying the role of Agrippina at the Metropolitan Opera House. Taking on the role of the cunning queen, DiDonato already had been in the eye of the storm. At that moment very few people really understood well what {…}
