There is a small and intriguingly personal sub-genre of operas about composers. Something is always up when one composer deals with another composer’s life and music. Subjects have included Carlo ...
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This fragmenting backdrop, designed by Opera of the Future students comes apart to reveal the orchestra as Sara Womble, Omar Ebrahim and Jesse Darden rehearse the final scene of "Schoenberg In ...
Kamratn's Anna Elder performs Schoenberg's PIERROT LUNAIRE with guest artists Futaba Niekawa [piano] and Jeffrey Turner [conductor]. Other works on the program include OI KUU by Kaija Saariaho and ...
Fleeing the rise of the Third Reich, composer Arnold Schoenberg landed in the United States as that most American of arrivals: a refugee. Settling with his family in southern California and teaching ...
At the Nimoy Theater, the composer’s story returns to the place where it originally unfolded. Photo: Liza Voll In 1933, the year Hitler was appointed Chancellor and the Nazis revoked Schoenberg’s ...
Long Beach Opera is on the move, although it is too soon to say to what or where or when. The pandemic squashed what might have been the most imaginative season, as devised by interim artistic advisor ...
On July 17, 1794, 16 Carmelite nuns paid the ultimate price for their faith during the Reign of Terror. A century and a half later, Francis Poulenc wrote his opera ...
So declared a rather ominous headline in Musical America on Nov. 19, 1933, above an image of the composer Arnold Schoenberg, his wife, and their baby daughter, posing on the decks of the Ile de France ...