LAST WORD REVIEW: Candide @ New York City Opera
Sunday afternoon, The New York City Opera unofficially bid farewell to its landmark Harold Prince production of the invaluable Leonard Bernstein operetta, Candide. It took Mr. Prince’s production, begun at the Chelsea Theater in 1973 and later brought to the New York City Opera by Beverly Sills [...]
Ok, y’all. Now this is a rare occasion. I’m posting a “TO DO” for a major venue. But you must, I mean, MUST go see Candide at NYC Opera. It opens tonight and runs for about a week and a half.
Now, I haven’t seen this production, so, I can’t speak for that (it is, [...]
Tuesday night, General Manager-to-be of the New York City Opera, Gerard Mortier, gave a talk entitled “The Enchantment of The Opera” at the J. P. Morgan Library in Manhattan. The lecture was by no means an announcement of his first full season of opera programming, which will be in 2009-2010, and is said to include [...]
Last night, C.C. stopped by incoming City Opera General Manager Gerard Mortier’s lecture “The Enchantment of Opera” at the Morgan Library. We’ll do a full post on it later, but for now, you need to know this juicy morsel of information:
Mortier has asked ultra-violent filmmaker Michael Haneke to direct a production of “Cosi fan [...]
Sweet. The State Theater is getting a makeover! Turns out NYCO and NYCB have kissed and made up, and are joining hands to update the rhinestone horse, as reported by The Times. There will be an acoustical clip-on that will allow for a better opera experience. I guess they’re also aiming to [...]
Opera Review: Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci at New York City Opera
There’s a lot to like about the City Opera’s double bill of Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci, or “Cav and Pag,” as the program notes suggest they are better known by. And director Stephen Lawless (any relation to Xena?) has worked with set and costume designer [...]
Today is Opera Day!
Coming up, we’re gonna harsh Perter Gelb’s mellow for the operatic atrocity that is…Lucia di Lammermoor.
But for now, we’re gonna give you Anne Midgette’s take on The City Opera’s Carmen. She’s right on in her careful description of Beth Clayton’s voice. But we totes dis with her over the performance [...]
Here’s what Sidekick thought…
When I was a wee Sidekick, my family wasn’t all that into classical music, and somehow I managed to go thirty years without bumping elbows with any version of George Bizet’s Carmen. My fam did, however, watch a lot of sitcoms. Thus, it was deliciously exciting when the overture started for New [...]
Here’s what Counter Critic thought…
Carmen is like heroine. It is no wonder why Nietzsche used this opera to delineate his philosophical split from Wagner. The moment the overture begins, you want to bounce in your seat, tap your toes, sing along. It is full of some of the most memorable musical numbers in the [...]
Opera Review: Don Giovanni at the New York City Opera
Reviews should not be mere synopsis, nor should they be history lessons. Those who read my criticisms might be familiar with this absence of plot summation and a lack of enumerating the historical highlights of a work or artist, which is normally rendered in order to [...]
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