Opera Southwest is bringing “Mefistofele” to New Year’s Eve. Composer Arrigo Boito’s 1868 opera will be the concert centerpiece of the Sunday, Dec. 31, performance at the National Hispanic Cultural ...
NEW YORK — The best that can be said for some recent Metropolitan Opera productions — “Samson et Dalila” and “Tosca,” I’m looking at you — is that they don’t actively hinder the works being performed.
In the first scene of the opera "Mefistofele," 138 singers, dancers, children and extras cram the stage, in matching white robes and matching masks. The spectacle lasts 25 minutes, and on opening ...
He turns Boito’s sequence of episodes from Goethe’s “Faust” into a louche, lively cross-chronological carnival: part Italian street theater, part bordello, part Baroque theater, part Catholic Mass. If ...
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