Very old things for very new needs
With recent events in politics, it is becoming ever clearer that humankind hasn’t evolved much since the Enlightenment.
Melissa Crespo
3 pieces since 2013 — at 1 company, most often at Morningside Opera.
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That sly come-hither stare
Harry Lawrence Freeman’s Voodoo, begun sometime before 1914, was completed and first heard on radio in May, 1928, then staged on Broadway later that year—seven years before Porgy and Bess, please note.
Servant of new masters
Morningside Opera’s ¡Figaro! (90210) is a staging/translation (into English, Spanish, et al.) of Le Nozze as if in contemporary Beverly Hills (as if!), and it’s playing at the NSD Theater on Bank Street near the Meatpacking District through next Sunday.