While it may not be top-tier Rossini, Teatro Nuovo’s mounting of Il turco in Italia is still good summer fun.
What Opera Lafayette’s Dido and Aeneas lost in gravitas it gained in charm and specificity.
Double double, toil and trouble, y’all, and happy spooky season from Slaylem. (It’s like Salem, but fun.)
They used to say of the island of Crete that it produces more history than can be consumed locally.
It was thrilling to see and hear Will Crutchfield’s insights come to life onstage in performance when Teatro Nuovo performed Poliuto at the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center Wednesday July 19.
Last night, for the first time in nearly a year and a half, opera returned to Lincoln Center.
Can a work with indisputably great music fail to add up to a successful opera? I puzzled over that Sunday during Teatro Nuovo’s essential concert staging of Rossini’s La Gazza Ladra at SUNY Purchase.
My memory is fading but the events I recall most vividly of the last season seem largely to have been concert performances.
The little opera companies of New York are like chanterelles.
Seventeenth century opera remains the true connoisseur’s delight partly because it’s so rarely done.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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