It isn't easy to get a new opera off the ground these days. First, someone needs to write a libretto. Then, someone needs to write the music. Then comes the long, painstaking process of figuring out what works musically and... »
[Sunset at Maidstone Beach. Photo credit: Rick Derevan] · Shelter Island's new baseball team needs housing. [SI Reporter] · Check out Karlie Kloss' Montauk photoshoot. [TheImproper.com] · Guild Hall will simulcast "The Enchanted Island" on January 21st... »
Certainly, some of the Opera's woes were a result of the recession, but the majority of them were self-inflicted. Here are some of the managerial lessons I derived from this operatic saga. »
Called the "Cosmic Opera," the series will feature performances by actors in burlesque garb, a live string orchestra, opera singers, elaborate stage sets and a complex laser show. »
by Angela Sutton (Photo: Metropolitan Opera) On Thursday, I made it to the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Charles Gounod's Faust. It proved to be a dramatic update of an operatic staple. Gounod's librettists, Barbier and Carré, based the libret... »
Review of Pink Martini's Town Hall holiday concert. »
By Nino Pantano Special to Brooklyn Daily Eagle BROOKLYN — The Gerda Lissner Foundation, which has done so much for young opera singers by providing scholarships, honored the renowned tenor Jonas Kaufmann and... »
Verdi’s sweeping and implausible Romantic drama “Ernani” has returned to the Metropolitan Opera and features the American soprano Angela Meade, who has received this year’s Beverly Sills Artist Award. »
