Tag: Yuval Sharon
Best Bets: March 9th – March 15th
Yuval Sharon's "Tristan und Isolde" is the toughest ticket to get in New York this week and also the most compelling show to see.
Kitty McNamee Choreographs Her Move Into the Director’s Chair
"In my mind it should have gone smoothly. This should've been a romantic comedy, but the parents had to get in there and society had to get in there."
Composer George Lewis Gets Struck by a Comet
"It's not like you're looking for influence. What you're looking for is the possibility for other people to do things."
Marc Lowenstein Lives in This Present Time
"It's only by letting go and having a tremendous amount of throughput, I think, that you can really find the meaning in the moments."
Soprano Christine Goerke Revisits Brünnhilde
"This isn’t just a concert. This is a fully-staged 'experience.' It is a way to approach the storytelling that I have never experienced in opera."
Baritone Davóne Tines Speaks Boldly About Julius Eastman
"All of the aspects of identity that he outlined, I also embody. So by being able to realize his words, I’m able to be very closely in conversatoin or community or connection with his aspirations."
Kate Soper Revisits “Voices from the Killing Jar”
"I think it was the start of me becoming more interested in works that had explicit theatrical elements and a legible kind of quasi-narrative element. And it was really a chance for me to really see how versatile I could be as a performer."
How Sweet Land Disrupts
As the opera becomes available for streaming, the librettists explore a central theme.
Sweet Land’s Librettists Have a Lot on Their Minds
"All of us, regardless of what we are trying to do, can always increase the volume of our awareness."