on festive occasions
“I’m also confident that both the long-overdue New York premiere of Daniel Catán’s sumptuous Florencia en el Amazonas and Spike Lee’s fiery new staging of The Gospel at Colonus—a retelling of the Sophocles in the form of a gospel church service—will continue to bring new visions to our audiences and new audiences to our vision. And how intrigued we’ll be to hear the Hungarian composer Peter Eötvös’ take on Tony Kushner’s most American of plays, Angels in America!”
New York City Opera’s incoming general and artistic director announces some very intriguing plans for the company’s “revamped” 2010 summer festival season at Mark Adamo Online.
Oh I don’t doubt it, but I’m intrigued that of 20 surviving Vivaldi operas, the only one that gets Adamo’s interest is the specific production with the Ercole’s nudity. Wasn’t a judgment on the work or composer, but a comment.
I’m intrigued that of 20 surviving Vivaldi operas, the only one that gets Adamo’s interest is the specific production with the Ercole’s nudity.
I believe the reason is that he was focusing on a season with mostly borrowed productions for financial and practical feasibility. Notoriety thanks to nudity wouldn’t hurt, either.
I wasn’t sure where to post this–but this is as good a place as any (recalling the NYCO production of a while ago…)
There is an incredibly fine Video-On- Demand of Janacek’s “Cunning Little Vixen” from a current L’Opera de Paris production–availible–FOR FREE–(through the end of the year), on:
http://www.medici.tv/
great sound and picture stream–(and this web-site is a real treasure -trove, as well)
Thanks for the tip Brooklynpunk- I now have my windy Sunday afternoon planned out.
I wasn’t dismissing the play or the opera as faggotty, I was dismissing Adamo as faggotty.
Jatm2063, what on earth can you mean by “faggotty” as a term of opprobrium: particularly on parterre box, a “queer opera ‘zine?” It happens I’ve coached (in college) both Little Women and Lysistrata, and both of them—Lysistrata, especially—are so specifically concerned with (straight) men and women trying to work out their feelings that I was surprised to learn that a gay guy had written them. That our revered La Cieca chose to run a picture of barechested Jim Bobick for her feature doesn’t make Lysistrata a gay opera any more than that YouTube clip of dancing bumblebees makes Un Ballo a cautionary tale of Colony Collapse Syndrome. It’s strange to read how scornfully you use the word “faggotty” a day after nationwide protests of Prop 8: a day on which the moral stature of gayness in America took a giant leap past Stonewall…
To quote our magnificent doyenne, “If not here, where else?”
If you had ever met Mr. Adamo you would understand why Jatm2063 used the term faggoty. As foisting his operas on poor unsuspecting students….
that and the fact that jatso is an admitted sh*t stirrer, too.
All true.
I am going to say at this point that I do admire Adamo’s setting of Little Women. It is one of two new operas I have seen in the last ten years that I would go to see again.