An evening with bejeweled socialites, soprano Deborah Voigt and Tony-winner Ted Sperling? Sign us up! Last Wednesday, May 16, at its spring gala, the New York City Opera proved that despite a year marred by operational drama, it is alive and well. In fact, it’s been a pretty damn good season. (We had trouble getting seats for Così Fan Tutte‘s final performance.) Read More
Deborah Voigt has been pretty busy performing the role of Brünnhilde in the Ring Cycle at the Metropolitan Opera—but that doesn’t mean she’s not interested in mixing it up! Tonight, she’s joining devotees of the Met’s Lincoln Center little sibling, the New York City Opera, in the annual tribute to the notion of having more Read More
“It was all good,” said the tenor Jay Hunter Morris at the recent Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Wagner’s Dream. “I said yes to everything. The cameras aren’t the hardest part. The hardest part is singing Siegfried.”
Mr. Morris was discussing his role in Wagner’s Dream, a documentary about the production process of the Ring cycle at the Metropolitan Opera. Filmmaker Susan Froemke took her cameras through the planning of Robert Lepage’s complicated set and through the rehearsals at which Deborah Voigt and Mr. Morris learned their challenging roles. “There really were no limits,” Ms. Froemke told us. Read More
We’re very interested in Wagner’s Ring cycle—you know, academically. But sitting through 16 hours of opera? Honey, Bobby Jr. is expecting us at the Riverkeeper benefit tomorrow, and we have to squeeze in a manicure! We’d much rather get briefed on what we really need to know at today’s panel discussion at the Tribeca Film Read More
It ain’t over ’til the slimmed-down lady sings—and even then, it ain’t over! Don’t bypass gastrically bypassed opera queen Deborah Voigt performing in Die Walküre at the Met tonight. Ms. Voigt sang in Das Rheingold, the first part of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, last Saturday, and is to perform the next two parts, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung, Read More
Sure, we liked celebrating New York arts, but come summer, we’re not going to be sweating through ballet performances in the city! If we get invited to our aesthete pals’ house upstate, we’ll check out the Glimmerglass Festival, which hosts concerts by the likes of Deborah Voigt and productions of Verdi and the like, but Read More
