two weeks in another town
Those of you who may be toying with the idea of a trip to the city this fall to check out the New and Improved York City Opera may be interested to hear the performance schedule for the company’s fall season. Remember these dates are provisional they should give you an idea of how the repertory sorts out.
November 5Â Gala
November 7Â EstherÂ
November 8Â Don GiovanniÂ
November 10Â Don GiovanniÂ
November 12Â Don GiovanniÂ
November 13Â EstherÂ
November 14Â Don GiovanniÂ
November 15Â EstherÂ
November 19Â EstherÂ
November 20Â Don Giovanni
November 22Â Don Giovanni
In ‘93, the NY Times described Esther as a work of “uncompromising modernism…acidic melancholy and muscular dissonances.†Yikes
Give me that over the trivial organ grinder music of the 19th century Italians so beloved here any day. Rum-ti-tum rum-ti-tum rum-ti-tum zzzzzzzzzzz.
@Henry- does any opera in the US program on Sundays?
They do here in Los Angeles because it finally dawned on them that in a city where people, like my boss did today, can spend an hour on the freeway to go 3 miles, that asking people to get off work > have dinner > make it to the opening curtain was insane. They try to schedule as many Saturdays and Sundays as they can.
La cieca and others: Mea culpa! Of course, I must not have looked closely or perhaps I was just drunk when I looked at the schedule. I guess I was thinking of the recent past when you could see 3, sometimes 4, productions in a week at NYCO. I do hope those days return.
As for some of the other rubbish written here. How is it possible NOT to be negative when writing about NYCO these days? Name one thing they’ve done right in the past year? I hope they succeed but I’m not going to be blind and just follow their press releases and hope for the best. They are clueless right and this pathetic schedule with pathetic casting gives no indication that they have found their way yet.
I only like my melancholy when it is musculaly dissonant.. also only like my dissonance melancholically muscular, not to mention my muscles which must be dissonantly melancholy with a hint of garlic….
#21 Chaka, I guess you are forgetting or not including in your estimation of NYCO singers the dozens of Met singers who made their debut at NYCO long before they settled in at the Met. Renee Fleming, Placido Domingo and the up and coming Paulo Szot come readily to mind.
Also directors who made their debut at NYCO before crossing the plaza include Mark Morris and Mark Lamos.
Again and again NYCO got there first, took bigger risks and presented operas more in line with what is going on in the world of opera, while the Met gave us bigger chandeliers and more stuffed couches. Now the Met is changing, with mixed results, to become more like NYCO. Last years “La Fille du Regiment” seemed exactly like the kind of thing NYCO does so well, while this seasons “La Somnambula” goes to show it take more than money to make an opera, it requires taste.
NYCO never lacked for taste the problem has always been money.
I don’t know where all the Steel apologists went but no one seems to be sticking up for this season as programmed. Does this mean the season is DOA?