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Tweet Share In a semester defined by COVID-19 challenges and limitations, Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music and Vanderbilt Opera Theatre have found an extremely clever way to salvage their fall production â premiering an animated version of Maurice Ravelâs L ges (The Child and the Magic) earlier this week. VOT Director and Voice Department Chair Gayle Shay and VOT Music Director Jennifer McGuire had originally planned to present the beloved work as a fully staged opera this fall. But in light of COVID safety protocols and restrictions, the pair decided to pivot to video, opening up a host of creative possibilities. ....
Last modified on Wed 16 Dec 2020 06.14 EST When I left the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London after Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s recital on 10 March, I little imagined that it would be the last “normal” concert I would attend this year. It was already clear by then that Covid was likely to bring at least a temporary halt to British musical life, but few would have imagined concert halls and opera houses would remain empty for much of the year. There would be no more public concerts in the UK until August. One by one, all the summer festivals were cancelled, and music-making went entirely online. Singers and instrumentalists gave impromptu recitals from their homes; opera houses and orchestras across Europe made their video archives available. But new work did still go on: Opera Harmony brought together over 100 opera-makers – composers, librettists, directors, performers – to create a collection of short digital pieces of varying quality; later in the autumn, Vopera’s a ....