Musicians are forever making up lyrics to go along with famous bits of music. This is partly because we’re incorrigible class clowns who never grew up properly, but mostly because, on your 138th trip through Handel’s Messiah, it helps you … Continue reading →
The orchestra has been playing Engelbert Humperdinck’s classic children’s opera, Hänsel & Gretel in one form or another for pretty much two solid weeks now, and I’ll admit, I wasn’t sorry to finish the last show of the run this … Continue reading →
For those of you who missed it, here’s a link to the Fresh Air interview with James Levine that aired on NPR yesterday. Levine is the subject of a barrage of commemorative media, from the Met’s DVD set James Levine: … Continue reading →
Hi! Sorry. I haven’t disappeared off the face of the earth, as some may have suspected, although I’ve been terribly remiss in the blog department. Blame it on 10 days of particularly tiring travels (4 states in a week is … Continue reading →
We’re stepping out of our comfort zone as an orchestra this week with Mozart’s absolute masterpiece of an opera, The Magic Flute. We end every summer season with an opera, and we’ve certainly done a few with Osmo over the … Continue reading →
Just in case you were inundated with election news all week and missed out on the good stuff, a few items: First up: a movement to make John Cages’ 4’33″ number one on the UK charts for Christmas (a publicity … Continue reading →
…Friday’s live stream of Theater Basel’s Calixto Bieito production of Verdi’s Aïda. Let me explain why. Live streaming performances are nothing new. Yes, it’s exciting to see something happening across the Atlantic in real time, but that’s not all that’s … Continue reading →
Remember that Klingon opera I was telling you about? Well, it had it’s (Terran) premier yesterday (in Holland). I’m kinda sorry I missed it…
Couldn’t resist this one: do you think there’s any chance these two news items might be connected in some way? Like, if high-frequency sound affects stage machinery reliability?
Although I blogged about Omniscient Mussel’s Operatwitter contest (condense an opera plot into a Tweet – 140 characters), I’ve neglected to link the results, so, quite belatedly, here are the 2010 winners My personal fave is a side-pot winner: OMG, … Continue reading →
