(Credit: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera) An immigrant and a gay man join forces to create art that defeats Nazis. While this simple sentence reduces all the complexities at play in “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay,” it also gets to the core of a battle that permeates to this day and provides us with the kind of hope {…}
On August 26, 2023, the first preview of Julia Schwartz and Catherine Filloux’s new opera “Blued Trees” takes place at Brooklyn’s Soapbox Gallery. The “Blued Trees” opera is an extension of Ecoartist Aviva Rahmani’s “Blued Tree Symphony,” which premiered in 2015. Rahmani’s multi-disciplinary art installation is in placed in many North American forests with the goal of blocking fracked gas {…}
A few months back, I spoke with members of the MET Orchestra Musicians about their concert series and the state of affairs within the organization. But what of the 80-member world-renowned Met Chorus that delivers show-stopping performances and put the grand in grand opera? Members of this elite group of musicians are dedicated professionals who sing in 15-20 productions per season, {…}
