20th century fox
Next week at The Morgan Library and Museum, New York City Opera General Manager-Designate Gerard Mortier will discuss his vision of opera. The lecture, entitled “The Excitement of 20th-Century Opera,” will focus on classic works composed by Claude Debussy, Leos Janácek, Olivier Messiaen, Karol Szymanowski, Mieczyslaw Weinberg, and others. Tickets for the program, scheduled for Friday, November 7 at 6:30 pm, are $20 and $25. More details may be found here.
UPDATE: A new production of Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen has just opened at the Opéra Bastille; according to the program it’s a co-production with the NYCO. Says reviewer George Loomis in the International Herald Tribune, “Happily, André Engel‘s staging will warm the hearts of even those most wary of the radical production style linked to Mortier.”
La Cieca:
I love your “teaser photo-ad” for this thread—I’m a ’39 NY World’s Fair enthusist (no , contrary to what some might say, I wasn’t there….maybe)
I GUESS/HOPE ? that by this event still on the books, all is not lost for NYCO, yet…?
(sounds very well worth attending—if I had the moola..)
Well. My mother was ’39 and I was at ’64. ANd I still don’t give a damn about Mortier
Oh I would so go to that if I were in NY. I’m not convinced that he’s the right man for this particular job, but he does know his shit when it comes to 20th century opera.
Gerard Mortier in action….
http://www.thirteen.org/sundayarts/gerard-mortier/41
Classic works composed by Mieczyslaw Weinberg.
Come again?
Turandot, you’ve never heard of Passazhirka?
or wikipaedia? ;p
turandot: for example,
Turandot:
Weinberg was a compatriot and close friend of Shostakovich; and pretty prolific, in his own right.
Sanford–I inherited my ma’s Heinz pickle pin, from the ’39 Fair—and even though I grew up just miles from Flushing Meadow, only got to the 64/65 Fair–ONCE!!(where I promptly got violently sick, in the fountain of the IBM pavilion–)
I still remember (or have heard about so many times, which amounts to the same thing) Dino the Dinosaur at the entrance, and I remember riding the monorail and a log flume.