‘Looking at You’ Review: Big Brother in Your Pocket

Kamala Sankaram and Rob Handel’s opera takes a hard look at surveillance in an app-based world. ByHeidi WalesonSept. 10, 2019 4:38 pm ET New York Subjects for immersive theater don’t get much more relevant than the insidious spread of surveillance, which is cleverly explored in the opera “Looking at You,” by Kamala Sankaram and Rob …

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Leave a reply Learning from Bryant Park: Revitalizing Cities, Towns, and Public Spaces Hardcover – April 17, 2020 by Andrew M. Manshel (Author) By the 1970s, 42nd Street in New York was widely perceived to be unsafe, a neighborhood thought to be populated largely by drug dealers, porn shops, and muggers. But in 1979, civic leaders developed a long-term …

A Tragedy of Our Times

The Glimmerglass Festival presents the world premiere of Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson’s ‘Blue,’ as well as a shortened version of ‘The Ghosts of Versailles’ and productions of ‘Show Boat’ and ‘La Traviata.’ ByHeidi WalesonAug. 14, 2019 4:19 pm ET Cooperstown, N.Y. Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson ’s “Blue,” commissioned and given its world premiere by the …

Santa Fe Opera Review: Rotten Relationships

In the company’s latest season, a revelatory production of Mozart’s ‘Così fan tutte’; an appropriately bleak take on Janáček’s ‘Jenůfa’; the world premiere of Poul Ruders’s slight, Brothers Grimm-inspired ‘The Thirteenth Child.’ ByHeidi WalesonAug. 7, 2019 4:30 pm ET Santa Fe, N.M. R.B. Schlather’s production of Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” (1790) was the revelation of this Santa Fe …