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…
Unlike those big-media favorites lists that appear in mid-December to grease the skids of the Great Shopping Season, my year-end…
[Ed. note: Former S21 contributor, member, and friend David Salvage has in the last couple years pulled up his U.S. tent…
One of my favorite active vocal composers is Tom Cipullo. In the nineties, I performed his song cycle “Land of Nod,”…
As part of their continuing new music series, the Boston Court Performing Arts Center in Pasadena presented Descent Into Madness,…
Louis Andriessen Theatre of the World Leigh Melrose, Lindsey Kesselman, Marcel Beekman, Steven van Watermeulen, Mattijs van de Woerd, Cristina…
To open with a broad stroke, opera is generally seen as a medium that embraces tradition. For example, while the…
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,…
Virgil Thomson – Gertrude Stein Four Saints in Three Acts; Capital Capitals Charles Blandy, tenor; Simon Dyer, bass; Aaron…
The first woman (among several) to run for president was Victoria Woodhull, whose campaign back in 1872, before women were even allowed…
On February 12-14 and February 19-20, ECCE Ensemble premieres Switch, a new opera by my friend and colleague composer John…