LoftOpera’s Saturday night performance of Rossini’s Otello successfully appealed to the essential kinetic energy of the operatic art form.
How often do you hear Macbeth with four really good singers in its four big roles?
LoftOpera offered an unusually satisfying, immensely entertaining production of Rossini’s scintillating portrait of an inveterate seducer.
LoftOpera gives performances of exceptional musical and theatrical polish in offbeat corners of Brooklyn.
LoftOpera is just one, though perhaps the liveliest, of many homegrown opera troupes in Brooklyn.
It could get loud. It often does, especially when the soprano is mere inches from your ears, pleading with the duke for the life of the poor boy (parentage unknown) who insulted her notorious dynasty.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
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