The year in Yohalem
My memory is fading but the events I recall most vividly of the last season seem largely to have been concert performances.
Hans Tashjian
10 pieces since 2013 — in 9 roles, at 5 companies, most often at Teatro Nuovo.
10
pieces
9
roles
5
companies
14
years
By role
Role Banquo
Great shakes
The little opera companies of New York are like chanterelles.
Role Callistene
It’s hard to be a saint in the city
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.
Role Figaro
Rossini al fresco
Last night, for the first time in nearly a year and a half, opera returned to Lincoln Center.
Role Hercules
Take the A415 train
They used to say of the island of Crete that it produces more history than can be consumed locally.
Role Misery
Witchery and bitchery
Double double, toil and trouble, y’all, and happy spooky season from Slaylem. (It’s like Salem, but fun.)
Role Podestà
There is no spoon
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.
Role Prosdocimo
Turkish delight on a moonlit night
While it may not be top-tier Rossini, Teatro Nuovo’s mounting of Il turco in Italia is still good summer fun.
Role Seneca
All the world loves a crown
Seventeenth century opera remains the true connoisseur’s delight partly because it’s so rarely done.
Role Sorceress
School gyrls
What Opera Lafayette’s Dido and Aeneas lost in gravitas it gained in charm and specificity.
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).