A box-office success, the Gabriel García Márquez inspired ‘Florencia’ comes to Rochester through April 2.
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Eastman Opera’s ‘Lear on the 2nd Floor’ tackles Alzheimer’s with arias
Anthony Davis’s 2012 opera “Lear on the 2nd Floor” uses Shakespeare as the inspiration for a family matriarch’s struggle with dementia.
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Eastman Opera Theatre figures out its first virtual production
Performing live opera in a theater has been impossible during the pandemic, but Eastman Opera Theatre has found a solution with “Our Voices.”
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Neither opera written by each composer — presented by Eastman Opera Theatre in its winter double bill — are well-known. Antonio Salieri’s “Prima la musica e poi le parole” (First the music and then the words”) and Mozart’s “Der Schauspieldirektor” (“The Impresario”) were premiered at the same 1786 competition in Vienna, and both works center […]
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Opera review: the dark satire of Eastman Opera Theatre’s fall double bill
In staging its 2019 fall double bill, Eastman Opera Theatre and director Stephen Carr had the challenging task of linking two musical theater pieces with seemingly contrasting plots and moods to create a fluid narrative. But the subtle similarities in theme are what bind “Mahagonny Songspiel” and “Der Kaiser von Atlantis” in this highly intelligent presentation.
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Eastman Opera Theatre presents intriguing double bill
From November 7 through 10, Eastman Opera Theatre’s Stephen Carr directs the group in a dual production of composer Kurt Weill’s pre-World War II cantata “Mahagonny Songspiel” and Viktor Ullmann’s “Der Kaiser von Atlantis” — written while the composer was a prisoner of the Nazis at the Terezín concentration camp.
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2019-20 Eastman Opera Theatre boasts two double bills
Eastman Opera Theatre continues to stage productions of operas outside of the standard repertoire. But while EOT has frequently highlighted the work of living composers, the 2019-20 season features lesser-known operas from both the 18th and 20th centuries, including works by important but underappreciated composers.
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Opera review: a modern take on ‘Don Giovanni’
The brilliant opera “Don Giovanni” — performed this weekend by Eastman Opera Theatre — unfortunately remains relevant more than 230 years after its premiere.
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Opera review: ‘The Tibetan Book of the Dead’
Eastman Opera Theatre’s new production of composer Ricky Ian Gordon’s “The Tibetan Book of
the Dead” is thought-provoking, and most of all, curious.
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Interview: Ricky Ian Gordon
Composer Ricky Ian Gordon’s opera “The Tibetan Book of the Dead” is being revived by Eastman Opera Theatre more than 20 years after its premiere. Gordon recently spoke over the phone about revisiting the harrowing times in which the opera was written.
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Opera review: Eastman Opera Theatre’s ‘L’incoronazione di Poppea’
Eastman Opera Theatre continues to impress with presentations brimming with excellent singers and professional production values. This time around, it was Claudio Monteverdi’s final opera “L’Incoronazione di Poppea.” Performed in Italian with English supertitles, this production of “The Coronation of Poppea” at Kilbourn Hall was also notable for its use of period instruments, and for […]
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Eastman Opera undertakes two bold productions
When it comes to opera companies, you are what you perform. The works you produce tell the audience everything it needs to know about what you value in opera and where you see the art form heading. In that respect, Eastman Opera Theatre has made its focus clear with its recent programming: Francis Poulenc’s “Dialogues […]
