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[…] Huang Ruo, “one of the world’s leading young composers” (The New Yorker), the production is directed and designed by the iconic Basil Twist, who “has broken new ground for musical puppetry with his imaginative, poetic designs” (The New York Times).Performing Book of Mountains & Seas at St. Ann’s Warehouse will be singers of The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; percussionists Michael Murphy and Ryan Scott; and puppeteers Lute Breuer, Ben Elling, Rosa Elling, Alexandra Goss, Rachel Schapira, and Ashley Winkfield.For details, visit https://stannswarehouse.org/show/book-of-mountains-seas/--Andrew Ousley, Unison MediaJames Conlon Celebrates 50th Anniversary of New York DebutThis month of February marks 50 years since James Conlon made his New York debut conducting The Juilliard School’s 1972 production of Puccini’s La Bohème. Thomas Schippers had been scheduled to lead the production, but he suddenly withdrew and a replacement was needed. Maria Callas, who had been at Juilliard giving master classes, insisted that Mr. Conlon be the […]
2015-02-25 09:05:51
originally published in the Jewish Daily Forward. On a freezing January evening, a large crowd gathered to watch as three stolpersteine were hammered into the sidewalk outside the Komische Oper Berlin. These brass stones commemorate victims — mostly, but not all, Jewish — of Nazi persecution. The plaques laid in front of the opera commemorated Jews who were involved there before the war: Fritz Spira was an actor and singer killed in the Ruma concentration camp; the concertmaster Kuba Reichmann went into exile and survived; Hans Walter Schapira, who worked in the library and the box office, was a victim of the Nazis’ euthanasia program T4. Stolpersteine are usually placed by buildings where those who were exiled or murdered used to live. By laying these three stones out in front of opera house, the Komische Oper was drawing attention to the crucial role that Jews played at Europe’s leading operetta theater, […]
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