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Raising flags and questioning promises at Philadelphia’s Highmark Mann
Peter Boyer’s oratorio A Hundred Years On, commemorating the centenary of the 1876 World’s Fair, softens the blow of jingoism, looking to an earlier era of hope and broken promise.
African American spirituals ring out in world premiere of Jubilee
A world premiere opera about the Fisk Jubilee Singers, the intrepid troupe of African American singers who changed music history.
Handel's Xerxes comes to Glimmerglass
Handel’s Xerxes (1738) was part of this year’s “home and homeland” season at Glimmerglass Festival.
Broadway meets Opera: Lost in the Stars
Emotionally-engaged performance of Weill's Apartheid Opera.
Operatic righteous anger or self-indulgence?
A righteous, politically-relevant but musically questionable world premiere of Philip Glass' revised Appomattox.
Render unto Caesar: An American première at Glimmerglass
Today, Vivaldi’s operas remain rarities. The American première of Cato in Utica at the Glimmerglass Festival (located an hour south of Utica, NY) attempted to elevate this little explored corner of Baroque repertoire.