The fall season is about to begin and the event operagoers have come to anticipate most eagerly is the annual concert opera presented by Odyssey Opera. Music director Gil Rose’s idea is to begin with ...
“I am young, it is true, but to souls nobly born, True valour cannot wait for the years to advance”. How many theatrical vocations have been inspired by the sublime verses of Corneille? According to ...
This four-act opera lay in near-oblivion for almost a century before it was resurrected in New York’s Carnegie Hall on March 8, 1976. The huge, appreciative audience who welcomed Jules Massenet’s ...
There is something to be said for opening with a major statement. For its third year in a row, Odyssey Opera has helped jump-start the fall classical season with an opera of vast proportions. First ...
Pierre Corneille caused a commotion with “Le Cid” in 1637. An audience-pleasing commercial success, the play was nonetheless rejected by members of the French literary establishment for failing to ...
17th-century Spain is exposed in Declan Donnellan's spell-binding production of Le Cid. Yet the passions of Corneille's tragi-comedy of Revenge and Family Relations still hit home today. If we see one ...
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