Director James Kerwin updates Shakespeare's lyrical poem, about the romance between the goddess Venus and the mortal Adonis, to a high-tech present, and he reworks the story so that it's now an ...
Salvatore Sciarrino’s “Venere e Adone,” his 15th opera, premieres this weekend at the Hamburg State Opera. By Jeffrey Arlo Brown Reporting from Città di Castello, Italy and Hamburg, Germany When the ...
Music historians generally agree that Western opera began around the turn of the 17th Century in Europe. However, the modern repertoire generally ignores the first 150 years in favor of the works of ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Narrators (L to R) Lise Bruneau and Tonya Beckman. Photo by Marcus Kyd. One ...
FARMINGTON — Outdoor Shakespeare returns to Greater Hartford with a reading of Shakespeare’s “rom-com” epic poem, “Venus & Adonis” by members of the Capital Classics Theatre Company, Aug. 5 at ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. It's 1593, theatres in London are closed due to the plague, and William ...
THE BASICS: The first true opera in English, early Baroque composer as the second half of an all-Baroque concert, one performance remaining, Sunday March 29 th at 2:30 pm in the theater at Buffalo ...
The faded beauty of Wilton’s Music Hall was the perfect setting for Transition Opera’s celebration of love, cannily scheduled to end its run on St Valentine’s Day. Romance was at the core of the ...
(1593). Written by a youthful Shakespeare at the time that London’s theatres closed their doors in fear of the Plague. Venus and Adonis is an epic poem of wit and sensuous beauty. It tells the tale of ...