"Honourably" means, from director Olivia Fuchs's perspective, tackling head-on the distasteful plot in which a girl young enough still to be playing with dollies is drugged and carted off by a ...
Before Madama Butterfly there was Iris, the tale of a young and exploited Japanese girl. The opera was written by Pietro Mascagni, the king of verismo. Mascagni is the composer of the quintessential ...
None is more abused than the heroine of Iris, Pietro Mascagni’s rarely performed tragedy about an innocent Japanese girl abducted into a brothel and driven to commit suicide. Premiered in 1898, six ...
Osaka and Kyoto haggle over the unconscious Iris at Bard SummerScape. The libretto, by favorite Puccini collaborator Luigi Illica, is a wispy symbolist text telling of the virginal Tokyo slum dweller ...
The curtain is going up on an extraordinary, operatic treat at Bard SummerScape. Like the mythic appearance of “Brigadoon” every hundred years, certain operatic flowers only find their full bloom a ...
The opera isn't for everyone. Whether it’s something as traditional and esoteric as Philip Glass' Akhnaten or groundbreaking as The Who's rock saga Tommy, an “opera” makes one think of acting, scenery ...
Co-directed by cinematographer André Chemetoff and visual artist Armand Beraud, "IRIS: a Space Opera by Justice" is a 60-minute version of the tour performance recorded in an empty, invisible space… ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A rare opera needs its champions. Somebody at Opera Holland Park clearly loves Mascagni’s Iris, a pioneering Japanese ...
Mascagni is more arthritic in his sense of movement – think of how long the plot of Cavalleria Rusticana takes to get going – and sometimes strives hard for those orchestral effects which seem so ...
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