New Opera Film of Handel’s ‘Admeto’ Makes Premiere

(Photo credit: H. Paul Moon) Opera Essentia and Zen Violence Films have released a new opera film of Händel’s “Admeto.” The film stars Hans Tashjian, Jeffrey Mandelbaum, Kristin Renee Young, Nicole Besa, and Melisa Bonetti. The cast also includes a Baroque orchestra playing on period instruments. “Admeto” was filmed at the Campos Community Garden in New York City during a {…}

Feb 29, 2024

Opera Meets Film: A Conversation About Opera Essentia’s New Film Of Handel’s ‘Imeneo’

(Photo Credits: H. Paul Moon) Performed among the foliage and resplendences of Campos Community Garden in New York City, one of a myriad of analogous respites, sanctuaries if you will, from the tyranny of cement and metal, the monotonous timbres and assaults of the urban soundscape, and the droning apathy and cold banality of inner-city dwelling, the caressing melodiousness of {…}