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2021-06-20 22:19:07
This past weekend, Kosmologia Interdisciplinary Ensemble premiered a multimedia work, Dreaming/Undreaming, at The Princeton Festival. The piece combines dance, video art, and piano music by J.S. Bach and the ensemble’s artistic director Carmen-Helena Téllez. Here is the trailer. When I learned that it was inspired by two short stories of Jorge Luis Borges, “The Library of Babel” and “The Aleph,” the […]
2020-08-08 23:23:00
Princeton Festival Rebroadcast - Britten's Peter Grimes. June 21, 2020.
Original Performance Date - unknown. Conductor - Richard Tang Yuk. Peter Grimes - Alex Richardson; Ellen Orford - Caroline Worra; Balstrode - Stephen Gaertner.
2019-07-04 21:20:00
Princeton Festival 2019 – Adams’s Nixon in China. June 30, 2019.
Matthews Theatre, Princeton, NJ. Balcony (Seat CC3, $75). Story. President Nixon and Pat Nixon flies to Peking on Monday February 21, 1972 and is met by Premier Chou En-Lai. They then go and meet Chairman Mao and have a discussion. This is followed by a banquet. The next day, Mrs. Nixon is presented with a glass elephant before she visits the Ming tombs. The evening is spent attending a performance of a revolutionary ballet devised by Mao’s wife Chiang Ch’ing. The last Act, described as “The last evening in Peking” by the librettist Alice Goodman finds Mao and Nixon reminiscing on their respective pasts. Conductor – Richard Tang Yuk; Richard Nixon – Sean Anderson, Pat Nixon – Rainelle Krause, Chairman Mao – Cameron Schutza, Madame Mao – Teresa Castillo, Henry Kissinger – Joseph Barron, Premier Chou – John Viscardi. The performers were miked […]
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