Opera by Richard Wagner Metropolitan Opera (New York) Live in HD (Revere, MA) Conductor: Fabio Luisi Production: Robert Lepage Associate Director: Neilson Vignola, Set Designer: Carl Fillion, Costume Designer: Francois St-Aubin, Lighting Designer: Etienne Boucher, Video Image Artist: Pedro Pires With Deborah Voigt (Brünnhilde), Patricia Bardon (Erda), Jay Hunter Morris (Siegfried), Gerhard Siegel (Mime), Bryn […]
Macbeth
Opera by Giuseppi Verdi Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Andrea Maffei, after William Shakespeare’s drama Boston Lyric Opera Shubert Theater Boston, MA November 4 – November 13, 2011 Conductor: David Angus Stage Director: David Schweizer Costume Designer: Nancy Leary, Set Designer: John Conklin, Lighting Designer: Robert Wierzel With Daniel Sutin (Macbeth), Darren E. Stokes […]
Dystopian Dreaming: Debra Weisberg and Judy Haberl
Gallery Kayafas Boston, MA October 22 – November 26, 2011 Cosmic and terrestrial images from two artists, some of which glow in the dark literally and figuratively. Debra Weisberg Looking a bit like paintings by Jackson Pollock at the outset, there is something generally explosive about them. They are all works made out of cut […]
Women of Will: Overview
by Tina Packer Directed by Eric Tucker With Tina Packer and Nigel Gore Presented by The Nora Theatre Company Central Square Theater Cambridge, MA October 13 – November 6, 2011 Frederick Leighton, Desdemona (1888) A dramatic and discursive overview of a compelling thesis: that the Bard’s depiction of women evolved from significantly limited stereotypes, through […]
Dawn Upshaw and Gilbert Kalish
Dawn Upshaw, Soprano Gilbert Kalish, Piano Distler Performance Hall Granoff Music Center Tufts University Medford, MA This dramatic, warm, funny and musically sophisticated program demonstrated not only the first-rate musical skills of these two consummate artists, but their greatly evident compatibility and capacity to deliver an intimate – though dramatic and expressive – musical conversation. […]