Notes from the underground
Director R.B. Schlather and his team explored Handel’s Orlando and the results, as seen at Monday night’s final presentation, proved uncommonly stimulating.
Kiera Duffy
11 pieces since 2009 — in 6 roles, at 1 company, most often at Opera Philadelphia.
11
pieces
6
roles
1
company
18
years
By company
Role Angelica
Role Bess
Sea, no evil
Breaking the Waves is not only a “real opera,” it is an immensely powerful work of music drama.
New waves
Missy Mazzoli, a 36-year-old composer from Brooklyn, has created the most startling and moving new American opera in memory.
Role Euridice
Pretty little lyres
While one sympathized with Matthew Aucoin’s urge to add his voice to the Orpheus canon it was difficult to figure out how his work complemented Gluck’s.
If looks could kill
What is an Orphic moment? A song so sweet that even Hades must release the dead back to the living?
Role Julia
The turning point
The Comet/Poppea at this summer’s Running AMOC* festival at Lincoln Center is a thrilling, startling, deeply moving experience
Role Nellie Bly
A madhouse is not a home
David Devan may be leaving the company, but there can be no better living tribute to him than this extraordinary work, which in 90 minutes gives us everything we could want from a new opera