Common Opens Up the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn Season in Prospect Park
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano) You know it’s summer when the BRIC Celebrate Festival season starts in Prospect Park (even if Mother Nature won’t officially chime in
“Aida” by Regina Opera in Brooklyn
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) Now wrapping up its 48th season, the Regina Opera company in Brooklyn performs in the auditorium of a school, Our Lady
Heartbeat Opera’s Modernized Versions of “Fidelio” and “Don Giovanni”
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) Heartbeat Opera is one of a number of smaller opera companies seeking to maintain traditional opera as a vital force in
Julianna Barwick and ModernMedieval at the Ecstatic Music Festival
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) Since 2011, the Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin Concert Hall has presented collaborative concerts by performers and composers in the alternative and
“Qyrq Qyz (Forty Girls)” at BAM
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) The epic story of Gulayim, a teenage female warrior from Uzbekistan who banded 40 female warriors together to fight off invaders, resonates
Meredith Monk’s “Cellular Songs” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
(All photos by Steven Pisano.) A new work by Meredith Monk is always a cause for celebration. Her performances, which always feature a magical combination of singing, dancing, and visuals, never fail
“Africa Now!” at the Apollo Theater
by Steven Pisano(All photos by Steven Pisano.) The sixth annual “Africa Now!” concert co-sponsored by the World Music Institute and the Apollo Theater was focused more on the electronic side
“Intolerance” by the American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
by Steven Pisano(All photos by Steven Pisano.) In the early 1960s, memories of Fascism and Nazism were still fresh in the collective memory of Europe. In Italy, the hateful, xenophobic
“Written on Skin” at Opera Philadelphia
by Steven Pisano(All photos by Steven Pisano.) Proclaimed an instant modern masterpiece when it premiered almost 6 years ago at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, George Benjamin and Martin Crimp‘s opera Written