The first time I saw an opera, I was sitting in the far rear of balcony seating, watching Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” unfold entirely in Italian. I did not speak Italian. I was too far ...
Sally McKee, professor of history emerita at UC Davis, wrote a book, published in 2017, about a free African American man who was an accomplished composer and conductor. The opera she discovered in ...
Matthias Pintscher’s first opera in 20 years invites audiences to find their own meaning in a macabre 19th-century tale. By Jeffrey Arlo Brown Reporting from Berlin The composer Matthias Pintscher was ...