The fictional Suffolk village of Luxford emerges as one of Britten's great operatic communities, as suffocatingly intolerant of non-conformity as the Borough from Peter Grimes or Captain Vere's crew in Billy Budd.
The operatic and musical community mourn the untimely passing of conductor Randall Behr.
TEANECK Puffin Cultural Forum The Harlem Opera Theater's Holiday Community Concert, performing operatic arias, spirituals and carols.
It demands a company, a sense of community and an understanding of the amateur operatic tradition – none of which it gets in Trevor Nunn's erratically cast and uncharacteristically awkward production.
On Monday at the Schomburg Center in Harlem, the company presents an abridged concert performance of the ragtime king Scott Joplin's operatic masterpiece, about a former slave trying to educate her community.
Jewison terms it an "operatic multi-generational romantic comedy" set in the Italo-American communities of Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Worst-case scenario: You hang out with the tech community, laugh at a few Chelsea Peretti jokes and enjoy the kick-ass operatic entertainment.
Britten's powerful operatic message was this: get it out there, make it useful, let the local community know it is theirs….
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