by Robert Boyd | Dec 16, 2017 | 2018 Season, Behind Curtain, La Sonnambula, News
The Sleepwalker Who Wasn’t There: Writing and Rewriting La sonnambula An old saw in the world of writing has it that “There is no writing—just rewriting”. Composer Vincenzo Bellini and librettist Felice Romani found this to be abundantly so in the twisting tale of how...
by Robert Boyd | Dec 9, 2017 | 2018 Season, Behind Curtain
There is a universe of outstanding opera beyond the most popular two dozen that you may know well. But, sometimes, unfamiliar plots can be a bit tricky to navigate. This season’s Kashchey the Immortal by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is certainly beyond the usual....
by Robert Boyd | Oct 21, 2017 | 2018 Season, Behind Curtain
Island City Opera presents Vincenzo Bellini’s bel canto opera, La Sonnambula Vincenzo Bellini had already become a superstar opera composer when he died at age 33. Though he was young, he was not a happy-go-lucky guy when it came to choosing his subject...
by Robert Boyd | Oct 21, 2017 | Behind Curtain, La Sonnambula
Known as the “Swan of Catania” (his birthplace in Italy), Bellini produced an incredible body of work during a much too short life. His operas Norma, La sonnambula, I puritani, Anna Bolena, and I Capuleti ed I Montecchi continue to hold the stage almost 200 years...
by Robert Boyd | Aug 20, 2017 | 2018 Season, Behind Curtain, Kashchey
Mozart and Salieri ‘lost’ composition played in Prague In 2016, a piece of music considered lost for more than 200 years was performed for the first time since being rediscovered; Per la ricuperata di Offelia. It was co-written by Antonio Salieri, and...
by Robert Boyd | May 14, 2017 | 2018 Season, Behind Curtain
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”1892″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Mozart and Salieri” – NY...
