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Dance: Trisha leads opera a merry dance Trisha Brown admits she knew zero about opera until recently - which makes her production of `Orfeo' all the more extraordinary.
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American choreographer Trisha Brown admits that she knew "zero"
about opera 12 years ago. That was before she collaborated on a
production of Carmen in Naples in 1986 with Italian director Lina
Wertmuller. There she helped out with problematic singers (what
Brown terms "diva maintenance") and played a specially created role
of a sorceress. Opera as a genre immediately cast a spell over her.
"Carmen never left me," she asserts. "That was an extraordinary
experience. The only thing wrong was n...
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Opera and the Morbidity of Music
Opera News
; Opera and the Morbidity of Music by Joseph Kerman New York Review Books, 355pp. $27.95 The title of this book might be paraphrased as "Opera and the Supposed Illhealth of Music," referring not to the morbidezza of Puccini but to "the mass media's death verdict on classical music as a whole."
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AS MUSIC INDUSTRY SLUMPS, MORE OF US OPT FOR A NIGHT AT THE OPERA.(DAILY BREAK)
The Virginian Pilot
; ... Forbes magazine crowned it ``one of the hottest sectors in the entertainment business.'' A recent article in the Dallas Morning News pointed to several reasons, chief among them is that opera is more available than it was two decades ago. The network of regional ...
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Thanks for the Melodies; In `Pique Dame' and `Beggar's Opera' The Music Is Its Own Reward
The Washington Post
; "In this kind of Drama, 'tis no matter how absurdly things are brought about," the Beggar (and supposed author) remarks as he goes about revising, on stage, the final scene of "The Beggar's Opera." This line, which will be repeated regularly through April 9 in the Folger Library's inventive new
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Music to make the heart grow Nigel Osborne's new opera ends in the Burmese jungle, but the inspiration for it started in war-ravaged Bosnia-Herzegovina. The composer tells Peter Reed how experience is the mother of invention
The Sunday Telegraph London
; Life could have been so much easier for Nigel Osborne. Just at the time, about 20 years ago, when he was getting established as one of the leading voices of British contemporary music and was on the brink of a major success with The Electrification of the Soviet Union (the opera he wrote for
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REVIEWING ROBERT ASHLEY'S MUSIC WITH ROOTS IN THE AETHER THE FIRST OPERA FOR TELEVISION
Millennium Film Journal
; FROM PORTRAITS TO OPERA WITH TELEVISION By the 1970s, Robert Ashley, nearing 40, had been involved in composing, performing and producing new music in all types of emerging and experimental media contexts. Over the years, Ashley scored films with filmmaker George Manupelli, for events in Milton
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Opera; Conducting Electricity; Music Director Fricke Provides Spark in Beguiling `Ariadne'
The Washington Post
; Heinz Fricke conducted his first performance as music director of the Washington Opera on Saturday night in the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater, and his presence made a perceptible, positive difference. The opera, Richard Strauss's "Ariadne auf Naxos," is one of the more complex, challenging
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A WOMAN WRITING HERSELF INTO OPERA HISTORY SCOTTISH COMPOSER THEA MUSGRAVE HAS BEEN MAKING MUSIC FOR 50 YEARS
The Boston Globe
; Thea Musgrave was still in her 20s when she composed her first opera, "The Abbot of Drimock," in 1955. Almost 50 years later, the Boston Musica Viva is preparing the world premiere of her ninth: "The Mocking-Bird," a chamber opera that it will present Friday night at 8 in the Tsai Performance
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MUSIC The critics: Ireland, a land without opera
The Independent - London
; IF music is the slow-developer among the arts, still teething when the rest are doing their GCSEs, opera is the slow-developer in music; and here in Britain it's easy to forget how little we had in the way of permanent, year-round opera until after the last war (which Covent Garden spent as a
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SINGING 'TOSCA'S' PRAISES POPULAR WORK FEATURING SORDID DRAMA AND SOARING MUSIC ENDS L.A. OPERA SEASON.(L.A. Life)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
; Byline: Fred Shuster Music Writer If time and durability are the validation of any work of art, that ``shabby little shocker'' ``Tosca'' has passed the test with flying colors. This despite the fact that critics once reserved their most venomous epithets for the story, labeling it banal, vulgar
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Students learn merits of music by creating their own opera
Chicago Sun-Times
; Placido Domingo probably never has been chastised in the middle of an opera rehearsal for smacking his bubble gum. But then, this was no regular rehearsal. This was a group of normal, average, rowdy, gum-chomping Chicago teenagers, ages 11 to 17, who just happened to have created an opera entirely
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