Mr. Carpenter, 28, likes to greet audience members at the door and rarely announces repertory in advance, preferring to present what he calls "spontaneous happenings".
It had been the City Opera's mission to present standard repertory in fresh productions with young casts of eager singers who looked the parts they were portraying, and also to offer unusual fare: new and recent operas, Baroque works, 20th-century rarities.
In 1997, we started a fall season there for American Ballet Theatre to present the repertory works that did not show well at the much larger Metropolitan Opera House.
The South Coast Repertory Theatre also is expected to present performances for children at the center's 250-seat rehearsal theater.
Because Viver Brasil attracts a large, enthusiastic audience, the company will have plenty of opportunities to present its repertory on local stages -- and to consider whether its technology is appropriate to its vision of Brazilian traditions.
Besides "Blowin' in the Wind", "Masters of War", "Girl from the North Country", "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" and "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" have all been acclaimed as masterpieces, and they have been mainstays of Dylan's performing repertory to the present day.
The Artek period instrument ensemble has devoted itself to finding fresh ways to present the early music repertory.
Classical music continues to present its core opera repertory -- presenting it in new and frequently controversial productions -- and then suddenly jump over fifty years or more to commission and present new works, skipping the mid-century.
After 12 years of leasing, the Irish Repertory Theater, dedicated to presenting works by Irish and Irish-American playwrights, is planning to buy the two floors it uses at 132 West 22nd Street, in Chelsea, said Patrick Kelsey, the managing director.
Millepied also gave clear signals about the new ballets he wants to present, which would occupy more of a middle ground between the traditional and contemporary extremes of the present repertory.
