The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: Brooklyn Academy of Music
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* Notes * William Christie and Les Arts Florissants are currently performing Charpentier’s David et Jonathas at BAM. The production is from Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and is directed by Andreas Homoki of Opernhaus Zürich. The set consists of wooden walls that can shift and move along two Cartesian axes. The blond wood used for walls and furniture…
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* Notes * Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal returned to Brooklyn Academy of Music to present Bausch's last work "…como el musguito en la piedra, ay si, si, si…" in a run of eight performances. I caught the last one on Saturday night. The piece is based on the company's experiences in Santiago, Chile and involves Bausch's…
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* Notes * The US premiere of Kepler by Philip Glass was last Wednesday night at BAM. The opera is rather more like an oratorio than an opera, being that of the 7 solo roles, only one was a named character, Kepler himself. All the singers were from the Upper Austrian State Theatre, Linz, and they…
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