United States UNSTAGED: Pittsburgh Festival Opera Pandemic Season: Various artists, Pittsburgh Festival Opera, streaming from Pittsburgh, 10-26.7.2020. (RP)
Pittsburgh Festival Opera beats the pandemic with grit, ingenuity and technology
Rick Perdian
A CONVERSATION WITH MICHAEL BROFMAN, FOUNDER AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE BROOKLYN ART SONG SOCIETY
Rick Perdian spoke with Michael Brofman, founder and artistic director of the Brooklyn Art Song Society, about the impact of the pandemic on the organization and its plans for the future
In the midst of its tenth anniversary season, the Brooklyn Art Song Society (BASS) had to cancel everything when New York became the global epicenter of the novel coronavirus in March. For its 2020-21 season, BASS is going digital and will celebrate the legacy of Franz Schubert, the first and arguably the greatest composer of German Lieder, with five programs of more than 100 of his songs. In addition, BASS will launch the New Voices Festival, which seeks to reimagine the art song for the twenty-first century.
The Met presents Jonas Kaufmann Live in Concert from Bavaria
Germany Met Stars Live in Concert [1]: Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) and Helmut Deutsch (piano). Live stream (directed by Gary Halvorson) from Polling Abbey, Polling bei Weilheim, 18.7.2020. (RP)
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Works & Process – Guggenheim and Met Present New Works by Missy Mazzoli and Nico Muhly
United States Works & Process Artists Virtual Commissions – Mazzoli, Muhly: Co-presented by Guggenheim Museum & Metropolitan Opera, New York, and streamed online 12-13.7.2020. (RP)
NT at Home presents Lorraine Hansberry’s epic Les Blancs
United Kingdom National Theatre at Home – Robert Nemiroff’s adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s Les Blancs: filmed on stage at the National Theatre in 2016 and viewed on 9.7.2020. (RP)
Luxuriating in legendary voices and grand style in the Met’s 1988 Il trovatore
United States Verdi, Il trovatore: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York / James Levine (conductor). 15.10.1988 performance reviewed as Nightly Met Opera Stream on 7.7.2020. (RP)
Epic, powerful, timely – National Theatre at Home’s Small Island
United Kingdom National Theatre at Home – Helen Edmundson’s adaptation of Andrea Levy’s Small Island: filmed live on stage at the National Theater in May 2019 and viewed on 24.6.2020. (RP)
The Music Critics Association of North America Best New Opera Award to Blue
The Music Critics Association of North America (MCANA) has given its 2020 Award for Best New Opera to composer Jeanine Tesori and librettist Tazewell Thompson for Blue.
