Is new opera booming on the streets of New York?
mainThe NY opera festival opens this weekend with, among other rarities, Britten’s Phaedra in a Williamsburg gallery and the US premiere of Milhaud’s La Mère Coupable in a garage owned by fashion designer Kenneth Cole.
Details here.
does it mean the money in America is out of stock ? opera in garage , sounds romantically amateur , like a student’s gig at university hostel ….
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It is about companies large and small coming together to challenge pre-conceived notions of traditional opera presentation.
While not everything can be brilliant – NYOA is reaching new audiences in a way that the more established companies increasingly fail to do.