Small Portions of Opera at NY Philharmonic and Angel’s Share Prove Unsatisfying
If this is the future of opera, presenters will need to achieve a higher level of polish than what was displayed by the New York Philharmonic and Angel's Share.
David Lang
Prototype Opera Festival Puts Women in Peril
“Reading the texts…I found to my fear and horror, words that killed, words that told every time of women's undoing.” So wrote feminist critic Catherine Clément in her controversial 1979 study Opera: The Undoing of Women. Though the focus of her work was on classic operas like Madama Butterfly and Lucia di Lammermoor, her thesis, that violent mistreatment of women is central to opera, was confirmed last weekend when Prototype: Opera/Theatre/Now presented new works in which women were variously gang-raped, eviscerated and executed by firing squad.
Cold, Ironic Opera ‘the loser’ Hovers Over Brooklyn Academy of Music
A failed concert pianist recalls his rival Glenn Gould in this one-act showcase for baritone Rod GIlfry.
