Tell me something good
With ambition to spare, Boston Lyric Opera‘s William Tell shows that the state of American opera need not be depressing.
Vita Tzykun
4 pieces since 2014 — at 2 companies, most often at Lyric Opera of Chicago.
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Patience and fortitude
Gregory Spears’ latest opera Castor and Patience, with a libretto by former US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy K. Smith, was commissioned by Cincinnati Opera to celebrate its centennial season in 2020.
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I found Fellow Travelers intellectually and politically riveting, musically thrilling, and profoundly moving. It was a triumph.
Reframing
The production is at all times visually arresting, but it’s also extremely distracting.
Orpheus goes downtown
Marc-Antoine Charpentier came along at the wrong time for a composer of French opera.
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).