opera
Tchaikovsky’s ‘Iolanta’ in Los Angeles staged premiere features a blind soprano
March 23, 2022The adventuresome Pacific Opera Project (POP) gave the Los Angeles stage premiere of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta Sun., March 20. The single largest production ever mounted by the company, the opera stars blind soprano Cristina Jones in the...
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A re-radicalized Beethoven ‘Fidelio’ for the Black Lives Matter era
March 1, 2022SANTA MONICA, Calif. — A touring production of Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera Fidelio has just ended its four-city tour in February, with stops at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Mondavi...
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‘Only an Octave Apart’: Celebrating queerness in opera and cabaret mashup CD
February 22, 2022We are dealing here with sophisticated artists of vast professional experience and accomplishment who are sensitive to “the promise of living” in all its complexity.
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‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’: First Black composer at Metropolitan Opera
October 29, 2021History was made at New York City’s world-famous Metropolitan Opera when it opened the season on September 27 with its first work written by a Black composer, jazz musician, and well-known scorer of many Spike Lee...
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‘Zajal’: Composer Dave Soldier traces origin of modern song to medieval Spain
March 20, 2020Zajal was produced by Pedro Cortes, called “the foremost American exponent of Gypsy flamenco.”
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