Hi again and happy new year, opera fans!
Since it is the height of opera season, I plan to be busy, busy, busy watching opera and writing about it. Here is a tasty little morsel of opera news: Playing this month is the world premiere of a new opera that has just been written! The Metropolitan Opera is producing The Enchanted Island, a new Baroque opera. What do you mean, 'new Baroque opera'? It's not the Baroque period anymore!!! Well, okay. It's called a Baroque opera because the music is all plucked from compositions by Handel, Vivaldi and some lesser composers to fit the mood. Clever British writer Jeremy Sams put the whole opera together, as well as writing the English libretto. I am looking forward to seeing it Live In HD at the end of this month - and I won't forget to tell you about it!
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