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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Pegasus Early Music’s ‘L’Orfeo’ finds a muse in the pandemic
Themes of loss and lonesomeness abound in the most important opera ever written.
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Andreas Delfs brings holiday tradition of ‘Hansel and Gretel’ to RPO
The opera “Hansel and Gretel” is a regular holiday tradition in Germany,an RPO Music Director Andreas Delfs brings it to Rochester on Nov. 20.
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Tenor Mark Daniels brings holiday warmth to virtual opera concert
Tenor Mark Daniels performs arias by Mozart and Puccini and beloved Christmas carols as part of his virtual holiday recital on Tuesday.
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Rochester Fringe Festival, Day 5: FringeTalk Recap and ‘A Night at the Cabaret’
The first weekend of the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival brings a recap of two FringeTalks, plus a review of “A Night at the Cabaret.”
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Finger Lakes Opera’s Young Artists adapt to virtual performances
For Finger Lakes Opera’s Young Artists Robin Steitz and Jongwon Choi, performing opera virtually has been both challenging and beneficial.
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HomeStage: Kearstin Piper Brown
Before the shutdown, soprano Kearstin Piper Brown was scheduled to sing in a new opera at Lincoln Center. So now, she’s performing on HomeStage.
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The RPO announces 2020-21 season, the last of the Ward Stare era
The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2020-21 season will inevitably be viewed through the lens of Ward Stare’s final season as music director.
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Opera review: RPO presents “The Mother of Us All”
When Virgil Thomson died in 1989, Leonard Bernstein’s reaction was something to the effect of “We all loved his music, but we never played it.” I doubt that Ward Stare would have bothered to present Thomson’s opera “The Mother of Us All” unless he believed in it completely,
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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.
