L’infelice Aragonese
Camille Saint-Saëns was such a brilliant, facile musician that pals like Wagner and Liszt felt a distinct schadenfreude when he suffered composer’s block.
Jeffrey Tucker
3 pieces since 2012 — in 3 roles, at 2 companies, most often at The Little Opera Theatre of New York.
3
pieces
3
roles
2
companies
15
years
By role
Role Cardinal Legate
Role Death
Death, warmed over
Kaiser Overall—the name is intended to be sung in English, though the opera is in German—is probably mad, though perhaps no madder than anyone else.
Role the priest
A little traveling music
Gustav Holst was always searching for deep theses from which to suspend his art.
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).