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"New and Noteworthy: American opera's upcoming world premieres" for Opera America"
A round up of new American operas debuting in the 2024-2025 season. |
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"In first-time collaboration, opera visionaries Aucoin and Sellars give voice to the planet" for Classical Voice North America
Insight from Peter Sellars and Matthew Aucoin on Music for New Bodies, a "synesthetic song cycle." |
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"Imagining Nikola Tesla: Phil Kline’s New Opera Searches for the Man Behind the Myth" for San Francisco Classical Voice
In conversation with composer Phil Kline about setting one of history's greatest and most eccentric geniuses to music. |
"Beatrice di Tenda re-enters the repertoire with an incisive production at Paris’s Opéra Bastille" for Seen and Heard International
In conversation with director Peter Sellars about his first Italian opera and the most transgressive work by Bellini you've never heard.
In conversation with director Peter Sellars about his first Italian opera and the most transgressive work by Bellini you've never heard.
"60 Years On, Exploring Resonance Between John Cage And Japan" for Classical Voice North America
An insightful series at Japan Society this fall breaks the silence on the artistic dialogue between Cage and the Japanese avant-garde on his historic first trip to Japan in 1962.
An insightful series at Japan Society this fall breaks the silence on the artistic dialogue between Cage and the Japanese avant-garde on his historic first trip to Japan in 1962.
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"Opera Meets Film: Peter Sellars’ ‘this body is so impermanent’" for OperaWire
Artists across disciplines explore an ancient Buddhist text for a modern meditation on illness and health. |
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"The Delicacy Of Suicide As Lyric Reflection In Lang’s ‘note to a friend’" for Classical Voice North America
Based on the writings of Japanese author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, David Lang’s new opera score and libretto remain true to Akutagawa’s sentiment on being “duty bound to be honest” about the decision to take his own life. |
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“Christmas Oratorio ‘El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered’ Restores Miracle to the Familiar”
Finally, a female perspective in the Nativity. I wrote about American Modern Opera Company's stunning production of John Adams's Christmas oratorio El Niño at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The performance amplified the maternal voice within the Christmas story using Latin American poetry and embraced common human experiences such as childbirth, violence, and hunger, mingling them with the spiritual to bring within reach a sense of the miraculous. |
NYC Correspondent columns for About Basque Country
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"Kulunka Teatro's Andre and Dorine is a play right on time--and out of it"
A recent touring production by an internationally renowned mask and puppet theatre company from Basque Country tells a timeless story in inventive ways. Click image to view |
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"Tracing a Musical Source in Basque Country: the Birthplace of Maurice Ravel"
A pilgrimage to the famed composer's origins along the Bay of Biscay. |
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"A Drink in the Clouds: NYC's Ophelia"
A rooftop cocktail bar where you may or may not find Frank Sinatra. |
Editorial for Clyde Fitch Report, the nexus of art and politics
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"Calling 'Doctor Atomic': In Santa Fe, Peter Sellars Revisits the Bomb"
An interview with the legendary director as the landmark opera exploring the power--and angst--of Robert Oppenheimer opens in Santa Fe. |
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"In the Age of #MeToo, I'm Thinking About Yuja Wang"
On the glass ceiling of women's concert attire. |
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"Omaha's Under the Radar Festival is OUTR of this World"
Inclusive, experimental art in Nebraska. |
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"Must be the Bourbon: Inclusive Classical Music in Kentucky"
The Louisville Orchestra has nourished a community around new music for decades. |
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"Classical Music Gets a Modern Makeover by Women"
Women composers (finally) produced at the Metropolitan Opera. |