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Sebastian Catana as Rigoletto; Berkshire Opera Festival; photo by Ken Howard

All Jesting Aside – the Berkshire Opera Festival’s Thrilling Rigoletto

By Charles Geyer on 30 August 2018 Classical, Concert Reviews, La Scena Online, La Scena Spotlight, Musical Theatre, Opera, Orchestral, Theatre, Vocal

REVIEW: of the Berkshire Opera Festival production of Giuseppe’s Verdi’s Rigoletto (August 25 at 1 p.m.; August 28 at 7:30 p.m. and August 31 at 7:30 p.m., at the Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield, Massachusetts). Sex, power, seduction, revenge, and a dazzling lightning storm. Verdi’s gutsy 1851 operatic melodrama, Rigoletto, gets a fascinating, stylish, and unflinchingly close study in the Berkshire Opera Festival’s new production, running through August 31 at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, Massachusetts (viewed here at the August 25 opening). Under director Jonathon Loy (who is also the festival’s co-founder), Verdi’s tale of a deformed court jester who seeks…

Michael Hewitt as Lieutenant Horstmayer and Arnold Livingston Geis as Nikolaus Sprink in The Glimmerglass Festival's 2018 production of Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell's "Silent Night." Photo: Karli Cadel/The Glimmerglass Festival

Through the Glimmerglass, 2018 – Reflections of a Turbulent Century

By Charles Geyer on 24 August 2018 Art Song, Choral, Classical, Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Dance, Education, Folk, La Scena Online, La Scena Spotlight, Musical Theatre, Opera, Orchestral, Romantic

PROFILE/REVIEW: of the 2018 Glimmerglass Festival Season: Silent Night by Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell; West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim; Cunning Little Vixen by Leoš Janáček; and The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini and Cesare Sterbini. “It’s remarkable how many important things happened in 1918,” observes Glimmerglass Festival artistic and managing director Francesca Zambello, speaking at a recent pre-show audience address in Cooperstown. “The end of World War I. The birth of Leonard Bernstein. And the premiere of this piece” – this last a reference to Igor Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale, which was…

Mozart & Salieri Are at It Again, at dell’Arte Opera Ensemble’s Festival 2018

By Charles Geyer on 9 August 2018 Art Song, Choral, Classical, Classical Music, Interviews, La Scena Online, La Scena Spotlight, Musical Theatre, Opera, Orchestral, Strings, Theatre, Vocal

PREVIEW: of the 2018 dell’Arte Opera Ensemble Summer Festival Season, “Mozart & Salieri,” at New York City’s LaMaMa (66 East 4th Street), August 11 through 26; and INTERVIEWS: with company founder and artistic director, maestro Chris Fecteau, and dell’Arte 2018 creative team members Brittany Goodwin and Catherine O’Shaughnessy. This company is ready to rumble. Call it the Thrilla from Vienna: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, that most bruited matchup of 18th Century musical titans, is slated for a redux this month – this time in 21st Century New York, courtesy of the dell’Arte Opera Ensemble. Grab a ringside seat.…

Composer John Rutter

At Home and Abroad with Composer John Rutter

By Charles Geyer on 13 July 2018 Chamber Music, Classical, Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Interviews, La Scena Online, Music Competition, Musical Theatre, Orchestral, Popular Music, Strings, Violin

INTERVIEW: with renowned composer John Rutter. Mark it a red-letter day in the Canadian classical music calendar: on Friday the 13th of July, John Rutter – among the world’s most beloved and widely performed living composers – arrives in Ottawa. “I feel very much at home in Canada,” Rutter says from his home in Great Britain. “I was quite a regular visitor in past years, when I was patron of the Toronto Mendelsohn Youth Choir. But this will be my first trip to Ottawa, and I’m very much looking forward to it.” It’s a journey occasioned by the two back-to-back…

The Grisettes from THE MERRY WIDOW; photo by Gary David Gold

Opera Saratoga 2018, in Plain English

By Charles Geyer on 12 July 2018 Classical Music, La Scena Spotlight, Musical Theatre, Opera, Theatre, Vocal

REVIEW/PROFILE: of the Opera Saratoga 2018 mainstage production season: Franz Lehar’s The Merry Widow, David T. Little’s and Royce Vavrek’s Vinkensport, Gareth Williams’ and Anna Chatterton’s Rocking Horse Winner, and Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Consul; at the Spa Little Theater, Saratoga Springs, New York, through July 15. You’ve still got all of August for those good pulpy beach reads. Why not set aside a bit of July to savor a different delectus of juicy plotlines during the all too brief lyric holiday afforded by Opera Saratoga’s summer 2018 season, running only through July 15? This year’s programming is (almost) completely…

Cecil Washington, Jr. and Jill Blackwood in Sunday in the Park with George at ZACH Theatre. Photo by Kirk Tuck

Zach Ensemble Gives Sondheim and Lapine a Stellar Sunday in the Park with George

By Paul E. Robinson on 27 June 2018 Musical Theatre

SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE. Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Book by James Lapine. Directed by Dave Steakley. Musical Direction by Allen Robertson. Scenic Designer: Cliff Simon. Projection Designer: Stephanie Busing. Cast: Cecil Washington, Jr. (George/George); Jill Blackwood (Dot/Marie). Janis Stinson (Old Lady/Blair Daniels), etc. Zach Theatre Austin, Texas June 24, 2018 Later this week in Austin, Peter Bay and the Austin Symphony will present two full-scale performances of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass. More than 300 performers will be taking part in what will surely be Austin’s major contribution to the worldwide celebration of the composer’s 100th birthday. Coincidentally,…

Sir John Falstaff (Craig Colclough), with the company of Opera Saratoga’s production of Falstaff, Photo: Gary David Gold

Opera Saratoga: The Racing City’s OTHER Season…

By Charles Geyer on 31 August 2017 Concert Reviews, Musical Theatre, Opera

RETROSPECTIVE: of Opera Saratoga’s 2017 Summer Mainstage Season (July 1 through 16) – Verdi’s Falstaff; Grétry’s and Marmontel’s Zémire et Azor; Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock. The end-days of summer are high horse-racing season in Saratoga, with turfites and extravagant millinery abounding; but, while much of the city lives for the thrill of beating hooves, Saratoga’s culture caters broadly. For many, summer’s highlight was long before a single bay bolted its stall, and the city swayed to different beats entirely – the two-week July mainstage season at Opera Saratoga. This year’s performances ran from July 1 through 16. Save the…

August 3 Performance Of The Crusade Of Connor Stephens To Be Live-Streamed

By Newswire on 27 July 2017 Musical Theatre, Newswire

NEW YORK, NY, July 26, 2017 – The August 3, 2017 performance of the Off-Broadway production The Crusade of Connor Stephens will be live-streamed, allowing theater-lovers to experience the critically-acclaimed production from anywhere in the world. The live stream, which begins at 8pm, can be accessed by visiting www.Crusade2017.com/livestream. Advance registration is on sale for $1.99 through August 2nd, and then $3.99 for day-of admission and subsequent viewings. Purchase once, view the recording multiple times. “We are so thrilled to utilize this new technology to allow people from across the globe to experience The Crusade of Connor Stephens in a groundbreaking way,” said Dewey Moss, author and director. “The live-streaming of a new Off-Broadway…

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Canadian Arts Festivals 2017: Our Picks

By La Scena Musicale Team on 1 June 2017 Circus, Dance, Film, Literature, Mainstream Jazz, Multimedia, Musical Theatre, Scena Arts, Theatre, Visual Arts, Vocal Jazz, World Music

Montreal St-Ambroise Fringe Festival Montreal, until June 18 The most convivial and bilingual event of the season, the Montreal St-Ambroise Fringe Festival takes place in the heart of the city on the Main. What makes it different? A program determined by lottery! Theatre, comedy, dance, music, and drag…no less than 153 talented companies from all over the world will be battling for your attention. The best way to pick is by reading the audience reviews posted in Parc des Amériques – an exercise that’s sure to make you a real fringier. My bets are on inVitro, by Pretium Doloris, the…

The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts at Queen’s University Presents Charlotte: a Tri-Coloured Play with Music

By Newswire on 24 May 2017 Musical Theatre, Newswire

The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts presents the premiere of the concert version of Theaturtle’s Charlotte: A Tri-Coloured Play with Music on Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 7:30 PM following the creation-based residency of its producing company, Theaturtle. Tickets can be purchased by calling (613) 533-2424 or online at www.theisabel.ca. The Theaturtle theatre troupe will be in residence at the Isabel developing this new work during the last week of May 2017 prior to the Kingston performance on June 1st. Theaturtle will continue to develop the work and then present it at the Luminato festival in Toronto on June 16-18, 2017. Necessity is the mother of invention, and how necessary…

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