The success of Porgy and Bess at the Met forced bass-baritone Eric Owens, the newly installed director of vocal studies at the Curtis Institute, to cancel a long-planned afternoon recital at the school on February 16.
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The Berta (mezzo-soprano Emily Damasco) runs away with the show.
By David Fox
Two atmospheric but bleak works provide a musical illustration of the notion that misery loves company.
By David Fox
Although Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti is always categorized as an opera, the piece certainly has one foot planted firmly in his jazzy musical-theater style.
By David Fox
Were La Rondine an IQ test, I’d be in trouble.
