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Two Girls Without a Clue
OPERA-LITE at Spoleto 2010. While I wasn’t assigned to deliver formal reviews of this year’s pair of what passed for conventionally-staged operas, I was able to attend both Wolfgang Rihm’s contemporary effort, Proserpina, and Neely Bruce’s modern reconstruction of the English ballad-opera, Flora. But since both of them are fairly short, single-act affairs (no... Read »
Notes from Spoleto 150, #2
THIS YEAR, history is doing more than repeating itself. It is casting light on its origins. Flora, an Opera, which will be performed at the Dock Street Theatre as part of Spoleto, was reportedly the first opera performed in the United States. It made its inaugural appearance in 1735 on the second floor of... Read »












