Ah, yes, the return of shameless self-promotion! If you’re around this Saturday, I invite you all to two opportunities to see my super sweet opera ensemble–Collective Opera Company–perform our new piece: This work is really a synthesis of a lot of ideas I’ve absorbed over the past year or so. The duet is very much [...]
Hot Soup
The folks at New York City Opera were on top of this shit, of course! And they sent us the link the Brokeback Mountain opera bit on The Soup for y’all to enjoy! So, enjoy!
Opera on E!
As we’ve already said, in one fell swoop, Gerard Mortier–by agreeing to produce Charles Wuorinen’s opera adaptation of Brokeback Mountain–has thrust the New York City Opera, and opera in general, into the national spotlight and the popular consciousness. Case in point, this weekend, The Soup, E! Entertainment Television’s hilarious show that overviews and skewers the [...]
Oh my god. For realz. Awesome.
Gotta thank T-Bone Tommasini at The Times for pointing us to this YouTube video Deborah Voigt produced to advertise her upcoming performance in “Ariadne auf Naxos” at Covent Garden. She was fired from the production in 2004 because, well, she had turned into a small whale. Hat’s off to Voigt for shedding the stones and [...]
I Just Can’t Quit Gerard Mortier
Speaking of L. Ro…. Her WNYC blog is seriously rockin’. For a major dance critic to allow such open and detailed discourse on subjects is fierce. Right now, she’s got a post up about the recent announcement that THE NYC OPERA WILL BE PRODUCING CHARLES WUORINEN’S “BROKE BACK MOUNTAIN” OPERA!!! Thank god Wuorinen found a [...]
Blog Benefits
Hey, yaw! Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet is offering blog readers a special discount for their spring season. Just use the code “blog15″ on SmartTix.com, and you can get 50% off of the ticket price, which equals $15. This offer is good through June15. C.C. hasn’t check it out (yet), but here’s L. Ro.’s review for [...]
Whitney Biennial Post-Mortem
Art Review: 2008 Whitney Biennial How will I know if it’s really art? It would be fabulous if we could ask Aretha Franklin what she knows about these things. But I’m afraid, with contemporary art, we’re on our own a lot of the time. Most people, no doubt, fear the relational free‑fall into which contemporary [...]
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