De Stijl

From De Materie, an opera by composer Louis Andriessen and Robert Wilson

A little bit of Mozart

The opening of Cosí fan tutte

Alban Berg’s Wozzeck

The opening of the opera

Stravinsky’s Renard

part 1

part 2

Stravinsky’s Histoire du Soldat

AG and I saw this production last Saturday, and it is well worth the price of the ticket. The production is actually a double-bill of Stravinsky’s Histoire du Soldat, a play/dance spectacle, and the small chamber opera Renard, also by Stravinsky, that takes place in a barnyard. More information can be found at this link.

Jean-Philippe Rameau – Platée

Robert Ashley

The beginning of a film on avant-garde composer Robert Ashley’s magnum opus, Perfect Lives. It is the American “opera” par excellence.

For AG

“Mon Coeur s’ouvre à ta voix”

Olga Borodina, Plácido Domingo

Samson et Dalila
Camille Saint-Saëns (1877)

[It's one of her favorite moments in opera]