Iain Bell and Lydia Steier‘s Medusa stuns in Brussels.
Trouble in Tahiti and A Quiet Place in a performance recorded last fall in London
Although Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti is always categorized as an opera, the piece certainly has one foot planted firmly in his jazzy musical-theater style.
Sunny, lakeside Cooperstown presents a peppy, exuberant, winning production of West Side Story, the musical.
What to do with all those glorious short operas: play them alone or find companion pieces?
In any narrative, the unmentioned—the unmentionable—will always be more alarming than that which is carefully described.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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