Today's "indie opera" outfits are making do with less money than what even our country's regional-level companies enjoy, so it's no surprise that chamber-size realizations are often necessary.
It then shows what is supposed to be a 2011 Qaeda recruitment video, complete with a man in a comic-opera terrorist outfit, saying that would-be terrorists hiding in America can buy guns at gun shows without a background check.
A noted American diva named Arden Scott has returned to the Midwestern city where she grew up, and where the local opera house, a struggling outfit called American Opera, is putting on a bel-canto rarity, "Rosa Dolorosa, Figlia di Pompei".
The Ring is enough to bring any international opera house – let alone a tiny outfit in the sticks – to its knees, financially and artistically.
"Grand" hardly describes Ms. Barnes's Vertical Player Repertory, or Golden Fleece, a downtown outfit that has been presenting new opera on a shoestring for 30 years.
— Like a dressmaker altering an outfit to suit local styles, Donizetti refitted his opera "Maria di Rohan" to reflect differing tastes and expectations in various European cities.
On the face of it, working within the parameters of opera might seem inimical to so belligerently anti-bourgeois an outfit as La Fura dels Baus.
AMATO OPERA: "COSÌ FAN TUTTE" Anthony Amato's Lilliputian company, a longtime outfit made up of professionals and eager amateurs, endures decade after decade in its tiny theatre in the East Village.
Jeans and tank tops are infiltrating the opera, and it doesn't feel appropriate to wear dramatic outfits very many places.
OPERA AMATO OPERA With the Metropolitan Opera and City Opera seasons over and done, Anthony Amato's Lilliputian company, a longtime outfit made up of professionals and eager amateurs, stands alone in its tiny theatre in the East Village.
