Elizabeth – Jeremy Sams’ Enchanted Island is a pastiche opera, taking storylines from two Shakerspeare plays, mixing them, along with various baroque music to form one new storyline and opera. I thought it was a fun new take on opera, but apparently this is actually a throwback to the early days of opera. Apparently back in… [Read More]
The Bohemians in Brooklyn
The Bohemians Movie is an updated film version of Puccini’s La Bohème set in present day Williamsburg Brooklyn. As the current hot bed of counter cultural artistic expression, Williamsburg presents the perfect modern counter point to the Latin Quarter of Paris in the mid 1800’s. Produced by legendary tenor Plácido Domingo’s son, Alvaro Domingo, eleven-time… [Read More]
