The Metropolitan Opera cancels all fall performances
"Social distancing and the grand opera just don't go together," says The Met's General Manager Peter Gelb.
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What’s going on Tuesday? (no shows!)
This is a first. In the nearly 15+ years of this BrooklynVegan's existence and doing daily round-ups of the night's best NYC-area shows...there are literally no shows.
opera based on Fugazi stage banter is touring (NYC, Montreal, Austin)
It's All True, Object Collection's "opera in suspension" based on Fugazi stage banter which played NYC back in February, is touring around North America and will return to NYC for a one-night-only performance at National Sawdust...
opera based on Fugazi stage banter coming to NYC in February
"All of us were both blown away and disoriented by the work – it was well beyond anything we had anticipated" says Fugazi's Guy Picciotto of the opera that is made up of Fugazi stage banter set to music.
opera about Milli Vanilli coming to Brooklyn’s BRIC House
The rise and fall of infamous lip synching pop duo Milli Vanilli will be the subject of a new experimental opera, titled WOW, being developed at downtown Brooklyn's BRIC House by composer Joe Diebes, poet Christian Hawkey and director David Levine:Milli Vanilli's troubled history is not only tragically operatic in terms of its story; it is also a tragedy of the digital...
Nico Muhly’s ‘Two Boys’ opened at the Met, continues through Nov 14; Muhly performing at LPR in January
Nico Muhly's opera Two Boys, which opened last week, continues its run at the Metropolitan Opera run with five more shows through November 14, including this Wednesday (10/30) and Saturday(11/2)...
New York City Opera is closing
It is curtains for New York City Opera. The 70-year-old company, long a star in the city's cultural firmament, announced on Tuesday morning that its emergency fund-raising appeal had fallen short, and that it would begin the process of dissolving itself and filing for bankruptcy...
Nico Muhly opera ‘Two Boys’ debuting in NYC in October; Opera about Anna Nicole Smith currently playing at BAM
Two Boys, the opera and librettist Craig Lucas, makes its NYC debut October 21 at the Metropolitan Opera House with a run of seven shows (10/21, 10/25, 10/30, 11/2, 11/6, 11/9 & 11/14). Ti......
Rufus Wainwright schedules show @ BAM (where his opera is happening NOW) – dates & presale
Rufus Wainwright in Brooklyn (more by David Andrako)
Rufus Wainwright's Prima Donna opera is currently running live at BAM. The NY Times was at opening night and unfortunately wasn't impressed...
Rufus Wainwright requests you quickly buy tickets to his opera at BAM
Rufus's letter in full (with info on his upcoming shows at BAM and the state of opera in NYC and more), below...