Showing posts with label opera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label opera. Show all posts

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Without My Death Who Will I Be? Live Forever?

Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday, February 15, 2014, Arts&Entertainment, Front Page (H1)

Excerpt from article "There's an app for that . . . opera" by David Patrick Stearns, Inquirer Music Critic:


"Without my death, who will I be?"

That central existential question in the futuristic Tod Machover opera Death And The Powers threatens to reverse the usual leading-soprano dilemma:  Instead of preparing to die, she decides she should live, possibly forever, in an alternative realm.

Thursday, November 21, 2013

What Happens To Opera Characters After Curtain Comes Down? (Great Grant Snider Illustrations)

New York Times, Arts & Leisure, Front Page, Page AR 1, Sunday, November 10, 2013
What happens to those beloved opera characters after the curtain comes down?  Let your imagination come up with some answers.  ("Liberating the Librettos by Anthony Tommasini)

The New York Times
November 10, 2013    
Grant Snider


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November 10, 2013    
Grant Snider


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