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2019-01-10 13:47:07
NYC’s Defunct Gotham Chamber Opera Comes Back From The Dead (Sort Of)
“[GCO’s] founder, Neal Goren, is back in business — thanks to an unusual collaboration between his new company, Catapult Opera, and Peak Performances at Montclair State University, which will present four of Catapult’s productions.” — The New York Times
2017-04-01 18:10:12
Clash of symbols
Ottorino Respighi’s operas are not much heard hereabouts—or anywhere else. My favorite, his Byzantine Verismo melodrama, La Fiamma, can be found in a superb Collegiate Choral performance among Parterre’s Unnatural Acts of Opera. Gotham Chamber Opera triumphed a few years ago with La Bella Dormente in Bosco. But Respighi’s gift was for a sort of visual-aural impressionism, turning his world into orchestral effects; therefore words, with their precision of meaning, got in his way. La Campana Sommersa (The Sunken Bell), which is being presented by the New York City Opera at the Rose Theater through April 7, is a true oddball, a concatenation of fairy tales from 1927 (it played the Met in ’29), based on an 1896 poetic drama by the “Volkish” (later Nazi) German playwright Gerhardt Hauptmann. The libretto, to put it politely, lacks clarity, cluttered with too many fairy tale elements, such as Fire, Water, Metallurgy, Church […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2017-02-13 05:19:03
[…] Joanna Newsom, and worked as an editor and conductor for Philip Glass. In the classical world, he is comfortable composing chamber music, concertos, ballet scores, and operas. A recently expansively beautiful work is his viola concerto composed for Nadia Sirota. His first opera, Two Boys (2010) brought him into the limelight of contemporary American music with performances by the Metropolitan Opera. His other opera, Dark Sisters (2011), received its premiere by the adventurous and intimate Gotham Chamber Opera; it gives us a portrait of a composer subject to various influences who also maintains a connection to the thematic thread of music drama. Split into two distinct acts, the narrative of Dark Sisters draws from the accounts of members within the Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) and their heightened media attention with the 2008 raids, following the tensions and doubts of Eliza, one of the five wives of the Prophet. Known for […]
2016-02-23 15:00:54
Beyond the forest
[…] snapped up by an enterprising producer and opened for an extended run in some intimate downtown performance venue. Until that happens, the Yale Baroque Opera Project is presenting two free performances of Cavalli’s Xerse on April 30 and May 1. The Paris Opera opens its season in September at the Palais Garnier with a new production of Eliogabalo featuring Nadine Sierra and star countertenors Franco Fagioli and Valer Sabadus; let’s hope it’s more successful than Gotham Chamber Opera’s misbegotten effort of several years ago. Those interested should also look for the promising Vinokur’s intriguing next project—as choreographer for Orphic Moments, a Gluck-Matthew Aucoin mashup starring Anthony Roth Costanzo opening next month—at National Sawdust, of course. Photos by Rosalie O’Connor.
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