New Opera & Performance

Doctor Atomic’s blast zone

The latest production ofDoctor Atomic, the opera about the birth of the Nuclear Age by composer John Adams and director/librettist […]

Violet Fire, the opera about Nikola Tesla that I worked on as librettist with composer Jon Gibson, is finally getting a studio

Leah Stein, a master of site-specific choreography, is known for creating outdoor dances that work a kind of alchemy on the places

With all the great women’s roles in opera, from Aida to Norma to Tosca, bringing up the issue of increasing

Space is the Place—the wild space-fantasy film starring Sun Ra, the legendary experimental jazz artist—came out in 1974. It follows

“Opera permits us to go into a world that is not real.” This was spoken by Nicole Paiement, artistic director of Opera

There’s something about the inventor Nikola Tesla that has strongly attracted artists—much more than his arch-rival Edison, let’s say. Tesla’s

Judgment of Midas premiered in Milwaukee last week, and I’m still buzzing. It was an incredible experience. Kevin Stalheim, who

It’s just a week now before the premiere of Judgment of Midas, the opera I’ve been working on with Kamran Ince.