This month, the Center for Contemporary Opera will present The Secret Agent, a new opera based on Joseph Conrad’s novel with music composed by Michael Dellaira and a libretto by J.D. “Sandy’ McClatchy. The following conversations took place in New York City last week during the final rehearsals of the new work.…
Month: March 2011
OONY | Meyerbeer: L’Africaine
On March 2, Eve Queler ascended the podium one last time as Music Director of the Opera Orchestra of New York to conduct a concert performance of the same work that inaugurated the company back in 1972: Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine. Following the thunderous applause that greeted her entrance, Ms.…