Anthony Davis’s new work at Long Beach Opera has potent music, but it struggles to turn its ripped-from-the-headlines story into satisfying drama. Nathan Granner as Khorey Wise, Cedric Berry as Yusef Salaam, Orson Van Gay as Raymond Santana, Derrell Acon as Antron McCray and Bernard Holcomb as Kevin Richardson Photo: Keith Ian Polakoff By Heidi …
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Long Beach Opera.
Romantic jealousies and magical interventions lead to all kinds of complications in this stunning production of Agostino Steffani’s forgotten gem at the Boston Early Music Festival. A scene from ‘Orlando’ PHOTO: KATHY WITTMANByHeidi Waleson June 12, 2019 2:01 p.m. ET Boston The Boston Early Music Festival has unearthed a forgotten Baroque opera gem—Agostino Steffani’s “Orlando generoso” (1691)—and …
The New York Philharmonic presents a remake of Beethoven’s sole opera, ‘Fidelio,’ with entirely new music, and the result is a gloomy production leached of the original’s passion. A scene from ‘prisoner of the state’ PHOTO: CHRIS LEEByHeidi WalesonJune 12, 2019 2:47 p.m. ET New York With “prisoner of the state,” given its world premiere last week …
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Boston Early Music Festival. Steffani.
New York Philharmonic. david lang.
The North American premiere of Heiner Goebbels’s deconstructed portrait of the past 120 years; a stripped-down Purcell work performed in a cemetery’s catacombs. A scene from ‘Everything That Happened and Would Happen’ Photo: Stephanie Berger for Park Avenue Armory By Heidi Waleson June 6, 2019 4:22 p.m. ET New York I’m all for recycling, but …
Greenwood Cemetery. Forget my fate.
At The Armory — a new candidate for one of the worst five things I’ve seen. I should have seen it coming with the Gertrude Stein quotation at the front of the program. Heiner Goebbels needs to know a bit more about history and philosophy before holding forth. Both elitist and anti-intellectual at the same …
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