Anne Sofie von Otter is no stranger to collaborating. The Grammy-winning mezzo-soprano has an impressive list of creative cohorts, including jazz pianist Brad Mehldau (they worked on the album Love Songs) and Elvis Costello (they teamed up on For the...
"To really give yourself over to that world is a really big commitment. I read it twice through before we started writing. All the chapters that irritated me at the beginning are now my favorites—those side chapters not involved in the plot.”
The works of Stephen Sondheim have been very good to Lee Blakeley. Or you can argue that Lee Blakeley has been very good to Sondheim’s work. The director oversaw the French premieres of A Little Night Music, Sunday in...
"We are all capable of enormous good and enormous evil. Does repeating the worst behavior of a criminal and putting that onto them solve anything? Does that make us better? Who has all the answers?”
The Figaro trilogy features three operas inspired by the works of Beaumarchais. Two of them are very well known: The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart and Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. The third opera, The Ghosts of Versailles, is...
Invisible Cities isn’t your parents’ opera. There’s no orchestra pit. There’s no stage. There’s no front row. Instead, the production, which is based on an Italo Calvino novel about an imagined conversation between emperor Kublai Khan and explorer Marco...