He said that although the theater had drawn more than 100,000 people to its productions, it has not made a profit.
A hit in its early productions, it inexplicably fell off the operatic map until last summer, when the Glimmerglass Opera -- City Opera's country cousin, in Cooperstown, N.Y.
The Henson International Festival of Puppet Theater is back, and along with its adult productions, it offers four children's shows and three that bridge the generations.
The Web transcends geography and makes no distinction between homemade products and studio-slick productions; it has provided an opportunity for a critical mass of listeners to coalesce around an idea or sound, no matter how strange or improbable.
Netflix's biggest binge gimmick, though, is how it schedules seasons of its high profile original productions: It releases all the episodes simultaneously.
From its repertory of more than 60 productions, it staged half a dozen each season, including old reliables like Puccini's "Bohème" and rarely heard works like "Lo Schiavo," an 1889 opera by the Brazilian composer Carlos Gomes.
From its repertory of more than 60 productions, it staged half a dozen each season, including old reliables like Puccini's "Boh?" and rarely heard works like "Lo Schiavo," an 1889 opera by the Brazilian composer Carlos Gomes.
"Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?" is often ascribed to that film, but it does not appear there or in any of her other early productions: it was too risqué for the time of its supposed use.
As for what is produced in such hylomorphic productions, it is correctly described by the name of its form, not by that of its matter.
Of the two productions it is "Ka," unexpectedly, that has a hint of an ideological charge.
Like most Disney productions, it was very professional and very kid-friendly.
