Preview: Robert Ashley’s Perfect Lives at Roulette
While everyone’s all agog about Wagner’s 5+ hour epic which closes this weekend over at the Met , I’m jazzed to see tonight what some regard as the first true American opera: […]
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Robert Ashley’s “Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)” at The Kitchen
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) The composer Robert Ashley's opera Improvement (Don Leaves Linda) is an interesting case as an opera because it was not conceived traditionally
Roulette Celebrates 35 Years of Adventurous Performances
by Robert Leeper Varispeed [Photo credit: Steven Pisano] When Roulette was founded in a TriBeCa loft in 1978, New York City was bankrupt, subways were covered in graffiti, and the
Recap: Performa 11
Last week, I attended several events as part of the 4th edition of Perfoma: the biennial exhibition of "visual art performance." As oxymoronic as that sounds, there was something strangely
Robert Ashley’s “That Morning Thing”
Edit: Yet another guest post, this time by Bonnie. Like most of Robert Ashley's operas, That Morning Thing – revived for the first time in more than 40 years last week at The Kitchen - is both