The Times drums up more Wagnerian melodrama, but of the institutional variety. Looks like they’re not sure who’s going to succeed as director of the uber-exclusive Bayreuth Festival. I guess it has to be real life Wagner at the helm. In the front of the running is the 29-year-old great grand-daughter of the big cheese-ball [...]
To Do: Shameless Self Promotion
Rindfleisch: 80% of Love August 1-4, 7PM The Ice Factory Festival Okay, so this is like the first time we’ve openly blogged about something we’re in, so, you know, eat it. We’ve previewed Elke Rindfleisch before, and blogged about her Dixon Place performance in June. Here’s the blurb for the show: “80% of Love delves [...]
She’s A Dream
Apollinaire Scherr is our new BFF! In case you hadn’t been following, A.Sch. and C.C. have been good-heartedly sparring over at her Arts Journal blog, on the subject of the chosen choreographers and their use of chairs. (FYI, Jeffrey Hornaday was the choreographer for Flashdance. Couldn’t find any information on his ethnicity.) Nevertheless, we HEART [...]
One More Time
Here’s a benign little offering from Sequenza 21. You know, in case you aren’t totally sick of reading about this opera that we will all probably forget very soon…
Critics Award of the Day (CAD): Fred Kirshnit
Ok, ok. Maybe we should have clumped all the Into the Little Hill reviews on one post, but to be honest, we’re kinda shocked that so many people covered this thing. I guess there’s a little cache for the polemical opera critics. Since there seems to be very little cultural consensus about A.) what the [...]
Little Hill of Horrors
Justin Davidson at Newsday chimes in on Into the Little Hill. On one hand, Davidson sounds quite musically informed (unlike Vivien Schweitzer whoseTimes review of two one-act Zemlinsky operas was all synopsis and sets), but then he also seems totally intolerant (and even a little arrogant) toward atonality. But George Benjamin’s atonality is kind of [...]
Time(s) To Dance: Latin Edition
Maybe sensing the looming end of summer, The Times went all Latin flavored to keep things hot and spicy… Julie Bloom gives us the lowdown on NYC’s Salsa past, present and future (coinciding, of course, with J-Lo’s latest hey-everyone-look-at-me-n-my-hubby flick) Dunning reports on Brazilian bottoms from Jacob’s Pillow And James C. McKinley’s article on an [...]
Into The Little Tommasini
Looks like T-Bone Tommasini waited a day to see what Counter Critic had to say about George Benjamin‘s new opera, “Into the Little Hill.” Here’s his Times review. Ok, so we forgot to mention the Ensemble Modern. Yeah they were pretty hot. Tony gets most of it right. My biggest departure from T-Bone is that [...]
Double Your Pleasure: Opera Review, “Into the Little Hill”
Double Your Pleasure is our new experiment. We sent Counter Critic (Ryan Tracy, a conservatory trained composer, conductor, and all around art freak) and Sidekick (Shari Goldhagen, a novelist and celebrity stalker who doesn’t know shit about classical music) to cover a new opera. Below, we post our critical findings without comparing them. See what [...]
Whoa, Nelly!
When we read Alastair Macaulay‘s supercilious clotheslining of “Metapolis II” at LCF, we totally thought this was just another one of AM’s lack-of-action induced cat fights, and a repeat of the Doug Varone debacle. But then we stopped over to Tobi Tobias’ AJ blog (you know, since we were in the neighborhood), and he kind [...]
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