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The opera world is split in two: European regietheater productions reinvent works in ways composers never imagined, while traditional stagings favored in the U.S. and parts of Italy are condemned by some cognoscenti as passé. Martin Kušej’s vision of Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” at the Salzburg Festival includes cocaine-fueled fights, a predator priest, a nearly naked hooker and a basement garage rave. Damiano Michieletto transforms Verdi’s “Aida” at Munich’s Bavarian State Opera into an antiwar jeremiad in which Radamès collapses from PTSD during a Triumphal March of amputees and the High Priest Ramfis attempts to marry the King’s daughter Amneris.
In Colorado Springs opera singer and voice teacher Valerie Nicolosi Niemerg’s first comedic novel, “Elly Uncomposed,” we meet Elly, a pianist who plays in the pit for a small university
ITHACA, NY Romantic intrigue and marvelous music filled the Community School of Music and Arts’ Hamblin Hall last weekend with Opera Ithaca’s strong production of Mozart’s masterpiece “Le Nozze