Nico Muhly's Dark Sisters make strange company at Gotham Chamber Opera

Por Amanda Keil, 15 noviembre 2011

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Crítica hecha desde John Jay College: The Gerald W Lynch Theater, Nueva York el 12 noviembre 2011

Muhly, Dark Sisters

Gotham Chamber Opera

Caitlin Lynch, Soprano

Eve Gigliotti, Mezzosoprano

Jennifer Check, Soprano

Margaret Lattimore, Soprano

Jennifer Zetlan, Soprano

Kevin Burdette, Bajo

Kristina Bachrach, Soprano

A fresh, funny Martinů double bill

Richard Peters, 14th October

Gotham Chamber Opera's current double bill of Bohuslav Martinů's Alexandre bis and Comedy on the Bridge prove that an opera company doesn’t need to be the biggest in town to be the most innovative.

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The Raven is a riveting start to the NY Phil Biennial

Rebecca Lentjes, 28th May

Conducted by Neal Goren, the musicians breathed across and blew notelessly into their instruments, creating layers of sounds that grew ever more intriguing as the repetition of the word “nevermore” grew ever more sinister.

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Pack a picnic for Gotham Chamber Opera's La hija de Rappaccini

Stephen Raskauskas, 17th June

On Monday, Gotham Chamber Opera presented Daniel Catán’s opera La hija de Rappaccini (“Rappaccini’s Daughter”) in the Cherry Esplanade at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

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Cavalli goes disco in Gotham Chamber Opera's Eliogabalo

Zerbinetta, 23rd March

Describing its new production of Francesco Cavalli’s 1668 opera Eliogabalo, the Gotham Chamber Opera compares the exploits of titular depraved Roman emperor Heliogabalus to Salome. There’s an obvious mistake here: Salome is an opera; Heliogabalus was a historical figure.

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Unos Roméo et Juliette en muy buenas manos en Tenerife

Ramón Pereira Blanco, 22nd March

Sofía Esparza y Airam Hernández defienden brillantemente la ópera de Gounod, en la producción de Ópera de Tenerife, con una cuidada dirección escénica de André Heller-Lopes.

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Una Manon Lescaut atrapada en el mundo de Àlex Ollé

Maria Sánchez, 17th March

Enmarcada entre suburbios y fronteras, Asmik Gregorian logra triunfar en su rol protagonista, sin poder salvar a su personaje, ahogada por la agresividad y provocación escénica.

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Amanda Keil

Amanda Keil is a native New Yorker who sings, teaches, writes about music and fundraises for the arts. Her broad musical interests have led her to perform music from ancient to modern times, and she is the founder of Musica Nuova, which stages Baroque songs in modern settings. She blogs at thousandfoldecho.