opera
‘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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A marvel of inventiveness in two one-acts from Pacific Opera Project
January 29, 2020You wouldn’t have to be an opera lover to love Pacific Opera Project’s latest venture, a double bill of two 20th-century works.
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A revelatory performance of Erich Korngold’s opera ‘Der Ring des Polykrates’
December 23, 2019The 1914 one-act opera, composed when the precocious Korngold was but 17 years old, is in a full-blown, late German Romantic idiom.
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‘Juana’: The feminist, nun, scholar, thinker, poet—and now an opera
December 5, 2019Feminists, opera lovers, anyone interested in Sor Juana and Mexican history, all would be enchanted by this fresh new work.
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