Tag Archive | New York City Opera
Vendi, Questa e L’immagine: The New York City Opera Auction… In Review
Sorry to have been gone for so long, but the Met season was just announced, a new Opera Teen piece is up on Parterre and there’s quite a lot to talk about! First, if you haven’t been following me on twitter, them you might have missed my frantic musings about the New York City Opera […]
New York City Opera Appoints Myra Huang Head Of Music Staff
(Text courtesy of Blake Zidell and Associates and New York City Opera) New York City Opera is pleased to announce the appointment of Myra Huang, whom Opera News has praised as “among the top accompanists of her generation” and “a colouristic tour de force,” as Head of Music Staff. The announcement comes on the eve […]
Sing for Your Supper: La Périchole at New York City Opera
As the fourth and final presentation of the nomadic New York City Opera, the company produced Jacques Offenbach’s “sort-of-semi-heard” operetta, La Perichole, at New York City Center (It’s original home at its inception in 1944.) The operetta is about an impoverished duo of street singers. The girl, Perichole, becomes the mistress of the Viceroy through […]