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Tag Archives: Verdi
Adès contra Parsifal
Ever notice that conversations can reinforce and honour contrary positions? When you sit down with someone over latkes, beers or (name your pleasure), the celebration and enactment of community & indeed, communion, makes the points where you diverge immaterial. You … Continue reading
Posted in Personal ruminations
Tagged Boito, Hoiby, Mark Shulgasser, Otello, Othello, Parsifal, Shakespeare, Tempest, Thomas Adès, Tom Service, Verdi, Wagner
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10 Questions for Milton Granger
Milton Granger is composer/librettist/lyricist of six chamber operas, all of which have been produced multiple times throughout the U.S. by college opera workshops and regional companies. Two (Uncharted Waters and Talk Opera) are first-place National Opera Association prizewinners. Granger’s musical play Bronze … Continue reading
Posted in Ten Questions
Tagged Milton Granger, Opera Five, Puccini, Talk Opera, Turandot, Verdi
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Numbers game
Is opera a numbers game? It depends who you ask. Statistics can describe aspects of any art form. For example: Guernica is 3.49 meters by 7.76 meters (more than 11 feet by over 25 feet) Syberberg’s film Our Hitler is over 7 hours … Continue reading
Verdi and Wagner
Is it early to be talking about the 2013 bicentennial of Giuseppe Verdi & Richard Wagner? Not when papers to be presented at conferences next year are already being proposed. Both composers were born in 1813. Let’s get to the … Continue reading
Operatic alchemy
The Canadian Opera Company announced its 2012-2013 season today, January 18th, a combination of works old and new. I don’t pretend to understand how an opera company chooses their repertoire, although I think I understand some of the issues involved. … Continue reading
What’s under the tree?
The recent High Definition Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Philip Glass’s Satyagraha offered another look at one of the most popular operas of the past few decades. I am posting this the night before the Canadian Opera Company announces their 2012-2013 … Continue reading
