Noteworthy in 2018: Schell’s picks
Unlike those big-media favorites lists that appear in mid-December to grease the skids of the Great Shopping Season, my year-end…
György Kurtág’s “Samuel Beckett: Fin de partie” at La Scala
[Ed. note: Former S21 contributor, member, and friend David Salvage has in the last couple years pulled up his U.S. tent…
December 1: Chelsea Opera Premieres Cipullo
One of my favorite active vocal composers is Tom Cipullo. In the nineties, I performed his song cycle “Land of Nod,”…
Descent Into Madness in Pasadena
As part of their continuing new music series, the Boston Court Performing Arts Center in Pasadena presented Descent Into Madness,…
Best Contemporary Opera Recording 2017 – Andriessen’s ‘Theatre of the World’
Louis Andriessen Theatre of the World Leigh Melrose, Lindsey Kesselman, Marcel Beekman, Steven van Watermeulen, Mattijs van de Woerd, Cristina…
Horror in Opera, in Virtual Reality: The Parksville Murders
To open with a broad stroke, opera is generally seen as a medium that embraces tradition. For example, while the…
Friday: Ueno Opera at Sawdust
At National Sawdust on Friday April 7th at 7 PM, Opera Cabal presents the premiere of Ken Ueno’s new opera Aeolus. Joined by vocalist Majel Connery and Flux Quartet,…
BMOP Records Thomson and Premieres Sanford
Virgil Thomson – Gertrude Stein Four Saints in Three Acts; Capital Capitals Charles Blandy, tenor; Simon Dyer, bass; Aaron…
Mrs. President … the Opera … comes to New York
The first woman (among several) to run for president was Victoria Woodhull, whose campaign back in 1872, before women were even allowed…
ECCE Ensemble Performs Aylward
On February 12-14 and February 19-20, ECCE Ensemble premieres Switch, a new opera by my friend and colleague composer John…