Shameless reverence: Renegade Opera’s “Orlofsky’s Party”
October 9, 2024
RO’s modern retelling of “Die Fledermaus” at The Judy toyed with light opera conventions and contemporary social issues.
RO’s modern retelling of “Die Fledermaus” at The Judy toyed with light opera conventions and contemporary social issues.
A slice of the recently-concluded festival, featuring Ross W. Duffin’s union of Byrd’s music with poetry by Sir Philip Sidney and Cantores In Ecclesia singing music of modern British composers alongside Byrd’s.
Pianist-composer Goodyear, flutist Lukas, pianist Mun, and hornist Vlatkovič joined forces with CMNW co-artistic directors Gloria Chien and Soovin Kim for a pair of July chamber music concerts at Reed College’s Kaul Auditorium.
A warm, synaesthetic performance of “Symphony of Psalms” preceded the multi-media “The Planets,” both under Alevtina Ioffe’s commanding direction, at OBF 2024.
Mezzo-composer Lisa Neher, flutist Rose Bishop, and pianist Abbie Brewer performed a concert of “innovative yet beautiful” chamber music in Saint Paul.
The singer and pianist presented an intimate evening of songs and poetry.
FNM followed its mandate, with two days of demonstrations and performances of electro-acoustic and chance-based music by Annie Gosfield, Eve Beglarian, Kaija Saariaho, Hannah Ishizaki, Adina Izarra, and Kamala Sankaram.
The Portland production of the doomsaying contemporary opera balanced farce and gloom.
The concert of mostly new and contemporary music featured Amelia Lukas performing Deena T. Grossman and Tania Léon; Anthony McGill, Gloria Chien, and Catalyst Quartet performing Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Brahms; and music by pianist-composer Stewart Goodyear.
The composer-performer flute-viola-harp trio premiered their own music alongside R. Murray Schafer’s similarly Debussy-influenced trio.
NMG 2023 acknowledged loss and celebrated recovery with concerts indoors and outside.
The Portland company presented a refreshingly inventive birdsong-themed outdoor program at Leach Botanical Garden.
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