Is new opera booming on the streets of New York?

Is new opera booming on the streets of New York?

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norman lebrecht

April 26, 2017

The 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.

Comments

  • Alexander says:

    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 ….

  • NSW says:

    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.

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