On Site Opera’s Turn of the Screw, an immersive production set in the Bronx’s Wave Hill Gardens, featured mostly good singing and a few directorial and technological missteps.
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This a sincere revival with a social conscience, a chance to take immersive part in the Christmas miracle, not just watch it remotely.
By Joel Rozen
Wedlock, betrayal, sibling rivalry, feminism, and union strikes give the opera Morning Star much of its driving thematic material.
By Joel Rozen
If Darius Milhaud took a risk in adapting La Mère Coupable as an opera, it wasn’t the quirky, atonal style he used for his score.
By Joel Rozen
“I thought you did it for me, Mama.”
By La Cieca
>The Crypt Sessions, in collaboration with On Site Opera, presented the world premiere of Gregg Kallor’s The Tell-Tale Heart
An extraordinarily rich variety of opera happens locally, under the umbrella of New York Opera Fest.
Poor Paisiello. Out of the nearly 100 operas written by this industrious composer just one was generally regarded as a masterpiece.
