Nico Muhly Modernizes Monteverdi With ‘Irreverent Veneration’
Muhly has reorchestrated Monteverdi’s foundational “L’Orfeo” for a new production at Santa Fe Opera.
Posted inClassical Music Crutchfield, Will Donizetti, Gaetano Lehmann, Jakob (Musician) Opera Teatro Nuovo
Bel Canto Rarities, Delivered With Unflashy, Revelatory Style
Teatro Nuovo’s concerts of Donizetti’s “Poliuto” and the Ricci brothers’ “Crispino e la Comare” delight with historically informed singing.
Posted inBavarian State Opera D'Angelo, Emily (Singer) Guth, Claus Handel, George Frederick Metropolitan Opera Opera Rae, Brenda Semele (Opera) Sly, Philippe Spyres, Michael
Review: A Met Opera-Bound ‘Semele’ Takes Its First Bows
Claus Guth’s entertaining and often sexy new staging of Handel’s opera-oratorio hybrid in Munich is a coproduction with the Metropolitan Opera.
Posted inClassical Music Culture (Arts) Czechoslovakia Felsenreitschule (Salzburg, Austria, Theater) Martinu, Bohuslav Opera Refugees and Displaced Persons Salzburg Festival
“The Greek Passion” Takes Center Stage at the Salzburg Festival
Bohuslav Martinu’s “Greek Passion” poses a timeless question: when a group of refugees seek protection in a new community, what will the locals do?