by Robert Boyd | Jan 13, 2019 | Behind Curtain, LIttle Women, News
Opera Beyond the Usual: Little Women Edition There is a universe of outstanding opera beyond the most popular two dozen that you may know well. Island City Opera is making a habit of finding those brilliant though seldom performed works. In 2018, we produced...
by Robert Boyd | Nov 23, 2018 | Behind Curtain, LIttle Women, News
Meet Maestra Dana Sadava and hear her insights into lyrical and modern elements of Adamo’s American masterpiece in this brief interview. WATCH INTERVIEW “Mark Adamo understands our musical traditions and all the harmony we are used to hearing. He chooses...
by Robert Boyd | Oct 27, 2018 | Behind Curtain, La Rondine, News
Widely touted as history’s most popular opera composer, Giacomo Puccini is not often thought of as a modernist in the way we think about Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Debussy, or Alban Berg. But of Puccini’s 12 operas (treating Il trittico as 3 operas...
by Robert Boyd | Oct 20, 2018 | Behind Curtain, LIttle Women, News
Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women as an opera? A moralizing story about four New England sisters who face life with obedient attitudes, hard work, respect for religious and parental authority, and a cheerful determination to make the best of the problems they face? How...
by Robert Boyd | Sep 8, 2018 | 2019 Season, Behind Curtain
When we talked to patrons about producing Little Women the opera many of them told very personal stories about how much reading the book meant to them when they were girls. The August 27th edition of The New Yorker magazine article “How ‘Little...
by Robert Boyd | Jan 8, 2018 | 2018 Season, Behind Curtain
Dr. Michael Shahani made his Island City Opera debut conducting the March 2015 double-bill production of Puccini’s Il Tabarro and Rossini’s Il Signor Bruschino. This year, Dr. Shahani will conduct the Friday, January 26th performance of Island City...
