opera
New opera “Fallujah”: Heartbreaking look at war and PTSD online now
March 23, 2016It is the first opera written about the Iraq War, and it is highly worthwhile.
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“I kill a man…/I love a man…”: The Emile Griffith jazz opera
February 24, 2016Of the hundreds of opera performances I have attended over a lifetime, rarely have I been so emotionally stirred as I was by this one.
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A new opera focuses on Frau Schindler of “List” fame
February 12, 2016In three acts, the opera features more than 20 roles, plus chorus, in scenes that alternate between the Schindler home and the factory.
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Today in history: Beethoven’s opera “Fidelio” in Berlin, 1945
September 4, 2015"A political prisoner's wife goes undercover, infiltrates the family of the prison guard and frees her husband from a secret dungeon just as the tyrant is about to kill him."
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Two kids reclaim the world in new opera “Second Nature”
August 27, 2015May "Second Nature" find a second production in another community soon. It's a remarkable work.
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