Opera
Home Sweet Home: Adelina Patti, the Soprano Who Sang for President Abraham Lincoln
Classicalite's Five Best: Opera Films
A dying art? James Inverne picks five of the best cinematic opera adaptations. It's not easy putting opera on the big screen. Oh, you'd think it would be fine--that the scale of the screen would match and even elevate the scale of the operatic form. Benjamin Britten's 'Billy Budd' Opera, Care of Sir Mark Elder and Glyndebourne, Gets Respect at Brooklyn Academy of Music
Benjamin Britten's profound, though often maligned Billy Budd, directed by Michael Grandage, is underway at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Howard Gilman Opera House--running through February 13. Of course, we told you to see the traveling Glyndebourne production, conducted by Sir Mark Elder, back in December.
