Nashville Opera to Revive ‘The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat’

Nashville Opera is set to present Michael Nyman’s “The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat.” The opera, which is based on Oliver Sack’s neurology case studies, explores “not only a diagnosis of visual agnosia for a former opera singer and teacher, but what becomes of a marriage when one partner becomes the parent and caretaker.” The opera is {…}

Opera Rara 2017-18 Review – The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Michael Nyman’s Opera About Madness Makes a Lot of Sense in Krakow

Since 2009 Opera Rara has been bringing obscure operatic works to the resplendent royal city of Kraków in Poland. Even though this year’s Opera Rara Festival included works by Charpentier, Gluck, Purcell and John Blow (the latter performed by John Butt and the superb Dunedin Concert) it is not just baroque bijoux which are presented to the receptive and appreciative {…}

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Nashville Opera to Revive ‘The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat’

Opera Rara 2017-18 Review – The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Michael Nyman’s Opera About Madness Makes a Lot of Sense in Krakow