New Mark Adamo Opera Commission Announced
Posted on Jan 26, 2009
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San Francisco Opera has announced plans to commission a new work by Mark Adamo for a scheduled premiere in 2013. The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, in Mark’s words, “draws on the Gnostic gospels, the canonical gospels and fifty years of new Biblical scholarship to reimagine the loves and conflicts of the New Testament through the eyes of its leading female...
Read MoreMark Adamo Web Site Launched
Posted on Aug 29, 2008
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Filed under: Announcement, Friends, Mark Adamo, Opera
I emerge from my summer blogging hiatus for long enough to spread the word that my friend Mark Adamo has finally launched his web site. Just like its owner, the site is informative, entertaining and well designed. With this site, Mark joins the world of Composers Who Blog, and there are already a number of intresting posts about the Israel première of...
Read MoreErling Wold's MORDAKE
Posted on May 24, 2008
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Filed under: Erling Wold, Friends, John Duykers, Opera
My congratulations to San Francisco composer colleague Erling Wold on the premiere of his new opera Mordake. This is not a review, and so I’ll stop short of providing a lot of detail. Mordake is a very beautiful work, both musically and visually, performed most courageously by the amazing John Duykers. It’s very difficult to describe, so I’ll...
Read MoreMore BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE
Posted on Apr 21, 2008
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Filed under: Bartók, Bluebeard\'s Castle, Hungarian, Opera, translation, Video
In the course of researching (read: obsessing over) Bartók’s one-act opera Bluebeard’s Castle, I came across a Hungarian film adaptation of the piece on YouTube. It’s annoyingly divided into fourteen segments, but anyone familiar with the piece or interested should take a look. Here’s the segment containing my favorite part, known to...
Read MoreBerkeley BLUEBEARD
Posted on Apr 20, 2008
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Filed under: Bartók, Berkeley Opera, Bluebeard\'s Castle, Hungarian, Libretto, Opera, Ravel, translation
I’d like to alert Bay Area readers to the upcoming performances by Berkeley Opera of my two favorite one-acts, Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges. These two composers are not particularly known for their dramatic works, but each work reveals the composer’s complete mastery of music for the...
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