Behind the Curtain | Island City Opera

Opera Beyond the Usual – Little Women Edition

by Robert Boyd | January 13, 2019 | Behind Curtain, LIttle Women, News | 0 Comments

Navigating unfamiliar plots; Little Women edition

by Robert Boyd | November 23, 2018 | Behind Curtain, LIttle Women, News | 0 Comments

Meet Maestra Dana Sadava and hear her insights into lyrical and modern elements of Adamo’s American masterpiece in this brief video interview.

by Robert Boyd | October 27, 2018 | Behind Curtain, La Rondine, News | 0 Comments

Giacomo Puccini as a modernist; influenced by the Viennese School in tonality and by Debussy in harmony and orchestration?

by Robert Boyd | October 20, 2018 | Behind Curtain, LIttle Women, News | 0 Comments

Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women as an opera? How did it occur to composer and librettist Mark Adamo that this would make an opera?

by Robert Boyd | September 8, 2018 | 2019 Season, Behind Curtain | 0 Comments

The importance of Little Women to generations of women.

by Robert Boyd | January 8, 2018 | 2018 Season, Behind Curtain | 0 Comments

Dr. Michael Shahani conducts, January 26th Rimsky-Korsakov double-bill; Mozart & Salieri, and, Kashchey the Immortal.

“There is no writing—just rewriting”. Composer Vincenzo Bellini and librettist Felice Romani found this to be abundantly so.

by Robert Boyd | December 9, 2017 | 2018 Season, Behind Curtain | 0 Comments

Navigating unfamiliar plots; Kashchey the Immortal and Mozart & Salieri

by Robert Boyd | October 21, 2017 | 2018 Season, Behind Curtain | 0 Comments

Island City Opera presents Vincenzo Bellini’s bel canto masterpiece, La Sonnambula, in comic style.

by Robert Boyd | October 21, 2017 | Behind Curtain, La Sonnambula | 0 Comments

Vincenzo Bellini’s place of honor in opera history.