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As the U.S. economy keeps hobbling and spluttering along like an angry drunk, it has knocked America's opera companies off balance, vandalized their plans and gouged holes in their budgets. [...]

The Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, the granddaddy of Americas themed summertime events, is about to open a new act in its history--which is fortunate, since the last one [...]

For decades, the Metropolitan Opera has been theater's version of IBM, marching backward with great aplomb into a shadowy future, dazzled by visions of its history. Opera-lovers adore the past, […]

If there is an artistic aristocracy in America, composer Peter Lieberson is its reluctant scion. His father, the late Goddard Lieberson, was a composer and the revered president of CBS [...]

Writing an opera is a cataclysmic experience,' muses Lowell Liebermann, whose first work in the genre, based on Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, has its premiere in Monte [...]

'You've got to have a Look,' proclaims the stage version of Maria Callas, who strides through Terrence McNally's play Master Class looking lithe and classy in a black pants suit. [...]

It's been sixteen years since Peter Sellars, the whiz-bang director with the chipmunk smile and electrogel hair, escorted Don Giovanni to Harlem--sixteen years in which his imitators have kicked operas [...]

Once again, composer Anthony Davis is a step ahead of Hollywood. Davis' X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X had its controversial premiere at New York City Opera in [...]

edited by Jan Fielden Marginalia Press, 193 pp. Composers, we have a tendency to assume, are special creatures endowed with the gift of wordless communication and equipped with a hotline [...]

Focuses on opera companies in the U.S. that are affected by the economic crisis. Problems encountered by Boston Lyric Opera; Decline in the budget of the Lyric Opera of Chicago; Productions at the Minnesota Opera.

Provides information on the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. Details of their performance at the Lincoln Center in New York City; Highlights of the orchestra performance directed by Louis Langrée; Challenges facing the orchestra group.

Discusses how American composer Peter Lieberson set to music the Buddhist myth of Ashoka, the Indian warrior-king of the third-century B.C. Lieberson as a reluctant scion of artistic aristocracy in the United States; Stint as a broadcast engineer at WNCN; Libretto written for the opera `Ashoka's Dream'; Lieberson's study of Buddhism; Establishment of a branch of Trungpa's Shambhala Training Institute.

Profiles Denyce Graves, who stars in the opera `Carmen.' Career history; Personal and educational background.

Features the opera `Amistad,' by Anthony Davis. Story of the mutiny on board the slave ship Amistad; Character; Contrasts for dramatic effect; Blending of tight scoring and musical jazz; Three different cultures in the story.