Archive for the ‘Opera’ Category
New Kiez Oper Video!
Wednesday, October 17th, 2012HAU 100º Winner: Strangers in a Song
Wednesday, August 1st, 2012KIEZ OPER
Wednesday, July 18th, 2012“Time to embrace the unexpected. This Friday and Saturday, the notoriously rowdy Salon Zur Wilden Renate will throw us all for a loop. Playing host to the city’s first Kiez Oper, the club will open its yard for an interactive, immersive adaptation of Henry Purcell’s opera ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ performed by members of the Staatsoper’s International Opera Studio as well as a full baroque ensemble.”
– sugarhigh magazine
Strangers in a Song – photos
Friday, April 20th, 2012
Alexa Vachon put together some images from the 100º Festival. Enjoy!
Songs statt Sex
Friday, February 24th, 2012
“Rotes Licht, ein opulenter Sessel und ein Telefon. Daneben auf einem Taschentuch der Hinweis: ‘Call me! 8426′ – verziert mit einem Kussmund. Ich tippe 8-4-2-6 und am anderen Ende ertönt eine angenehm tiefe Frauenstimme. ‘Was möchtest du?’, haucht sie in den Hörer. Ich habe die Wahl zwischen Jungfrau, bad girl oder Alleskönnerin. Wäre ich ein Mann, würde ich mich jetzt komisch fühlen. Ich nehme Carmen. Sogleich schmettert mir eine Arie ans Ohr. Wie diese Carmen wohl aussieht? Jedenfalls klingt sie ganz anders als die süße Marilyn vom Telefonat vorhin. Impulsiver. Nach einem letzten ‘Ahhh!’ und einem intensiven Moment der Stille fragt sie: ‘Möchtest du noch etwas hören?’ ”
– HAU 100Wort! (Photo credit: Christopher Rohde)
Highlights from NYFringe 2010
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010“The Demimonde Theatre & Opera Company are to be commended for bringing a new production of The Maid of Orleans to New York audiences via Fringe… Ethereal soprano Gudrun Buhler digs into the title role, speaking with appropriately unearthly cadences and singing beautifully. Dylan Bandy gives Lionel, the British lord, lovely voicing as well, bearing a good deal of the show’s musical weight…and the Bandy/Buhler duet of ‘Ah, crudel, d’onor raggioni’ approaches the sublime.”
– Jon Sobel @ Theater Review
A Polish opera comes to Greenpoint
Friday, April 23rd, 2010Stanislaw Moniuszko’s Hrabina opened at the Polish National Home, The Warsaw in Greenpoint, on a sullen Sunday evening. Given the tragic events of the week, there was some debate as to whether the show would happen at all, and if it did, what audience would attend? On Saturday April 10th, 2010, a plane crash took the life of Polish president Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and many of Poland’s most prominent politicians and military leaders. But, the show went on.
Hrabina by Stanislaw Moniuszko
conducted by Thomas Lawrence Toscano of Opera Oggi NY
with Malgorzata Kellis as Hrabina, Dylan Bandy as Bronia, Mario Arevalo as Kazimierz, Ron Mesa as Podczaszyc, Zander Eben as Dzidzi, Ivan Amaro as Chorazy and Elena Laurenti as Pana Ewa, and accompanied by the Polish Singer’s Chorus and the Polish American Folk Dance Company.
Press from the Greenpoint Gazette.
The Waiting Room
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009For three nights at The Whyte Museum in the Canadian Rockies, a double bill of one-act chamber operas played to sold out audiences. The new works by local composers Sebastian Hutchings (The Agony of Mrs. Stone) and Lorena Orozco (The Waiting Room), were brought to life by a small ensemble of singers and a chamber orchestra conducted by Maestro Michael Massey.
The Waiting Room
by Lorena Orozco
libretto by Emilio Carballido
with singers Nan Hughes, Dylan Bandy, Ryan Harper,
Roy del Valle, Chris McCrae, Karen Minish, and Susan Lexa.
