Silent Night is in a sense a giant middle finger raised against the conventional wisdom that musical sophistication requires inscrutability.
What we go to Grattacielo for is fresh young voices singing their guts out.
Italo Montemezzi’s La Nave, premiered in 1918 and not performed anywhere since 1938, concerns itself with nautical power, male and female archetypes, love and hate conjoined, sex and death, the eastern and western halves of the Roman Empire — and the visionary future of Old Venice.
The Poisoned Kiss derives its plot from the legend of the girl raised on poison so that her very kiss will kill.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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