Composer Gregory Spears is a unique example of this maxim that one must be “deeply rooted in tradition in order to innovate with integrity.”
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The aesthetic vision of M. Lamar’s Funeral Doom Spiritual was undeniable.
By Dan Johnson
Prototype: Opera/Theatre/Now presented new works in which women were variously gang-raped, eviscerated and executed by firing squad.
By James Jorden
anatomy theater, receiving its New York premiere Saturday night at this year’s Prototype Festival, is a conceptual exercise in which nothing, absolutely nothing is left to the imagination.
By Dan Johnson
“You can’t imagine anyone else writing an opera that sounds like this one, though you devoutly wish someone would.”
By La Cieca
It’s particularly bewildering that before 2013 there was no such thing as the Prototype Festival.
By La Cieca
“…a perfect marriage of text and music, creating a series of tableau-like scenes, as if Paul’s story is being related through a series of exquisitely posed still photographs…”
By La Cieca
