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Thomas Conlin and the Vallejo Festival Orchestra have a concert coming up at the end of the month that looks like a lot of fun: three young tenors, an excellent orchestra and conductor, and a program of Verdi, Puccini, Donizetti, and other well-loved Italian composers. The singers are Taylor Comstock, Spencer Hamlin, and Alex Mckissick. I checked out some of their videos, and there's lots of talent here! It's a special thrill to hear singers at the beginning of their careers, too.From the web site:Expect a night of vocal splendor as the Vallejo Center for the Arts brings together three extraordinary young tenors who are set to captivate audiences with their remarkable talent, soaring voices, and electrifying performances!Three Tenors! – The Next Generation is a tribute to the iconic “3 Tenors” concerts that have captivated the world for decades. Building upon the legendary legacy of Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and […]
2016-02-23 15:00:54
Beyond the forest
Ordinarily if La Cieca assigned me an opera revolving around chastity vows, adultery, slut-shaming, lesbianism, transvestism and much more I’d grit my teeth and head for a grim new work at, say, National Sawdust in Williamsburg. Instead, Sunday afternoon found me at Juilliard Opera for a 365-year-old comedy: Cavalli and Faustini’s delicious La Calisto in a superbly imaginative mounting by young director-choreographer Zack Winokur. Faustini’s magnificent, complex libretto follows Jove on yet another of his many extramarital dalliances. The lust-object this time is the nymph Calisto, a follower of the virgin goddess Diana who initially proves very uncooperative. But Mercury suggests that Jove disguise himself as Diana who then quickly seduces the hoodwinked devotee in what is surely opera’s first lesbian lust-duet. Of course the real Diana appears in the same Arcadian wood to explore her own illicit erotic longings for the languorous shepherd Endymion. Many complications then arise […]
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