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Caramoor Brings Us Our Summer Opera

August 1, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

Handel’s Theodora for New Yorkers The final Sunday of July brought New York’s music lovers a remarkable treat when Caramoor presented Handel’s Theodora, the composer’s 1749 oratorio. Caramoor, now known as the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, is a former estate located near Katonah, New York, approximately 50 miles (80 km) north of New …

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Filed Under: Music, Personal History Tagged With: Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Caramoor Summer Music Festival, Costanzo (Anthony Roth), Duncan (Tyler), Handel (George Frideric), Harris (Ellen T.), Mack (Daniela), Munger (Marie-Eve), Pearlman (Martin), Rosen (Walter and Lucie), Shrader (Alex), Stein (Avi), Theodora (opera), Trinity BaroqueOrchestra, Trinity Wall Street Choir

Living in New York: “Akhnaten” Revival at The Met

May 24, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

Although we had Akhnaten at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in November, 2019, I didn’t get to share my thoughts about it when it came to us then. So here is some of what Guy has been thinking about Akhnaten, which opened last Thursday and runs through Friday, June 10 (the final performance of Akhnaten for this season and …

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Filed Under: History, Music, Personal History Tagged With: Akhnaten (opera), Costanzo (Anthony Roth), Gandini Juggling, Glass (Philip), James (Zachary), Jugglers (in opera), Kamensek (Karen), Lárusdóttir (Disella), McDermott (Phelim)

Met Opera’s Akhnaten comes to PBS

March 27, 2020 By Guy St. Clair

There were far too many highlights of the Met’s recently truncated season – performed and planned – to write about here. And all my readers know that I’m a committed opera fan, so I was sorry not to be able to share my thoughts about one of the most important productions I’ve ever experienced at …

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Filed Under: Music, Personal History Tagged With: Akhnaten (opera), Bridges (J'nai), Costanzo (Anthony Roth), Egypt, Gandini (Sean), Glass (Philip), Jugglers (in opera), Kamensek (Karen), McDermott (Phelim), Metropolitan Opera Organization

Welcoming The American Modern Opera Company

August 12, 2019 By Guy St. Clair

Opera folks, especially in the New York City area, seem to be continually grappling with the fact that there isn’t enough opera around. We have the grandest of the grand, of course, in our beloved Metropolitan Opera, but with the loss of New York City Opera a few years ago, there’s much talk about what …

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Filed Under: Current Events, Music Tagged With: Appleby (Paul), Aucoin (Matthew), Costanzo (Anthony Roth), Koestenbaum (Wayne)

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