The New York Times – Music:
As leader of opera companies in Santa Fe and St. Louis, he welcomed new works as well as new artists.
Category: Opera Theater of St Louis
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Has Scott Joplin’s ‘Thoroughly American’ Opera ‘Treemonisha’ Found Its Moment?
The New York Times – Music:
“Treemonisha” — brilliant, flawed and unfinished — is ripe for creative reimagining at a time when opera houses are looking to diversify the canon.
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An Oliver Sacks Book Becomes an Opera, With Help From Friends
The New York Times – Music:
Tobias Picker and Aryeh Lev Stollman have adapted “Awakenings,” drawing both on source material and personal experience.
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An Opera About Harvey Milk Finally Finds Itself
The New York Times – Music:
The composer Stewart Wallace has overhauled his 1990s score and says “the music is freer now, and more organic, and yet completely recognizable.”