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Opera Venues in New York City: A Scorecard
New York City Opera has announced it is leaving the 2,550-seat David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for other venues starting next season. It has yet to say where it will go, or what operas it will...
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With New Theater, BAM Becomes Three-Ring Music Campus
If you build it, they will perform.That appears to be the guiding philosophy for new music venues in New York at the moment. The latest entrant into the field is the BAM Richard B. Fisher Building,...
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Review: City Opera's Anna Nicole Tells Tabloid Saga
If applause alone could cure the New York City Opera's financial ills, the company would be in the pink following Tuesday's opening of the Mark-Anthony Turnage opera Anna Nicole– and not just because...
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Review: Billy Budd at BAM is Electrifying
Summer festivals can lose their shine when revived out of season – and when exported from their leafy environs. But in a rare visit to New York, England’s Glyndebourne Festival, far from its grazing...
View ArticleObama to Present National Medal of Arts to BAM, Bill T. Jones
President Obama will present the National Medal of Arts to 12 recipients including the Brooklyn Academy of Music during a White House ceremony on Monday.BAM is the sole presenter to receive the medal,...
View ArticleA Radiant Darkness in Brooklyn
If you’ve been in a dive bar in New York, or anywhere else, just those simple words are enough to conjure the bleak decor, the smell of stale drink and something more. Eugene O’Neill’s 1939 play, The...
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Review: Handel's Semele Comes to BAM With Ming Dynasty Temple. And Sumo...
Canadian Opera Company has a history of visiting the Brooklyn Academy of Music with productions that aren't cutting edge so much as they're alternative edge. Bluebeard's Castle (Bartok) was re-imagined...
View ArticleBAM Turns to Orchestra World for Next President
The Brooklyn Academy of Music has turned to the orchestra world for its next leader. The arts center on Thursday said that Katy Clark, the executive director of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, will become...
View ArticleHaunting Goldbergs at the Crypt
On Monday night, in a church crypt nestled in northern Manhattan, 60 people gathered to hear the French pianist Alexandre Tharaud perform Bach's Goldberg Variations. The setting couldn't have been more...
View ArticleLes Arts Florissants Revive an 18th-Century 'Hit'
A wild carnival sets the stage for gambling, intrigue, trysts and mistaken identities, while long-legged dancers strut lasciviously around stage in revealing crimson costumes. The scene seems taken...
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