“Da Camera takes on ‘A Proust Sonata'”
Read my preview at the Houston Chronicle. Update: And you can read Theodore Bale’s astute review as well, also at the Houston Chronicle.
Month: February 2016
n’est ce pa une opera
The world premiere of Robert Ashley’s opera-novel Quicksand makes it even more difficult to define his body of work. Zachary Woolfe (who reviewed it for the NYT) insists that Quicksand is categorically “opera,” but he’s responding to the many people who insist that… Continue Reading
Weekend Music: Rusalka and Schumann
I readily admit I was a big fan of the Little Mermaid when I was young–not just the Disney film but the darker, unhappier fairytale versions too. Houston Grand Opera’s Rusalka brought the fairytale happily into my adulthood on Friday. Saturday… Continue Reading