La Cieca sadly notes that LoftOpera has postponed their production of Pagliaccci (scheduled to open September 15) until a later date to be announced.
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LoftOpera’s accurately but unpromisingly named Pergolesi & Vivaldi stumbled rather than soared.
For those of you who missed the live webcast of Rossini’s Otello last weekend (and for those of you who want to see it again.)
LoftOpera’s Saturday night performance of Rossini’s Otello successfully appealed to the essential kinetic energy of the operatic art form.
Tonight at 8:00 PM ET, The New School telecasts LoftOpera’s production of Rossini’s Otello, live from Bushwick!
How often do you hear Macbeth with four really good singers in its four big roles?
“We want to figure out how to create a nationwide change in how people think opera can be done. \“
La Cieca has been informed LoftOpera is relocating its next production, Così fan tutte—opening on September 16, with performances until September 25—to 101 Varick Avenue, a massive warehouse space in East Williamsburg.
La Cieca though you might be amused, or at least bemused, by a few published reactions to LoftOpera.
LoftOpera offered an unusually satisfying, immensely entertaining production of Rossini’s scintillating portrait of an inveterate seducer.
After two previous productions of Tosca in New York City this season (the Met’s revival of the controversial Luc Bondy version and NYCO Renaissance’s depressingly retrograde take), New Yorkers finally got a pleasing, if rough-edged, performance of the Puccini classic from LoftOpera.
“By the end of next year… the axis of opera in New York may just possibly have shifted from Lincoln Center to a loft in Gowanus.”
LoftOpera gives performances of exceptional musical and theatrical polish in offbeat corners of Brooklyn.
“This throwback to the golden age of opera—superhuman singing greeted with frenzied ovations—was a function of a perfect storm of excitement.”
LoftOpera is just one, though perhaps the liveliest, of many homegrown opera troupes in Brooklyn.
“Those kids in Bushwick have this opera thing figured out.”
In just two years, Brooklyn’s LoftOpera has rapidly established itself as a bracing, essential addition to New York City’s musical life.
Our Own JJ crunches the numbers at the Met and LoftOpera in the New York Observer.
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.
Tonight, Joyce DiDonato will perform the music from her new album Stella di Napoli at the Gowanus Ballroom.
The last place you’d expect to find opera at all, let alone good, exciting opera, is in still-scrappy Bushwick, Brooklyn.
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