On Site Opera will present “Comedy and Tragedy Under the Stars” at Caramoor’s Venetian Theater on July 22 at 8 pm. The one-night-only performance will star Stephanie Blythe, Laquita Mitchell, and Maya Lahyani. First up, Blythe and Mitchell will share an adapted stage version of composer and librettist Rachel J. Peters’ “Lesson Plan,” which they premiered online this year via {…}
On Site Opera has announced it will present Gian Carlo Menotti’s holiday opera, “Amahl and the Night Visitors.” The opera will be presented at the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen on Dec. 6-8, 2018 in partnership with Breaking Ground, New York City’s largest provider of permanent supportive housing for the homeless. The performances will feature a chorus made up of community {…}
In the American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs, I took my seat along the edge of a display featuring the fossils of an enormous Apatosaurus waiting for the opening notes of “Rhoda and the Fossil Hunt.” On a platform beneath the tail of this behemoth emerged conductor Jorge Parodi and one part of the orchestra, the string {…}