Performing live opera in a theater has been impossible during the pandemic, but Eastman Opera Theatre has found a solution with “Our Voices.”
Steven Daigle
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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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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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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 […]
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“Hydrogen Jukebox” bends the opera genre
In 1966, Allen Ginsberg penned ecstatic yet defiant words in his poem “Wichita Vortex Sutra”: “I claim my birthright! … Joy reborn after the vast sadness of War Gods! A lone man talking to myself, no house in the brown vastness to hear, imagining the throng of Selves that make this nation one body of […]
