Well, it was announced today that Chita Rivera's show will be closing this Sunday, which is too early for me to get a chance to see it. Perhaps that's all for the better, however, considering my budget.
Despite the fact that I don't follow opera, I was extremely excited to hear that a lot of great theatre composers and Rufus Wainwright will be writing operas for the Metropolitan Opera in an effort by the opera for its productions to go through a more intricate workshop and revision process. The artists who will be writing the operas are:
Adam Guettel (The Light in the Piazza, Floyd Collins, Myths and Hymns)
Jake Heggie
Michael John LaChiusa (The Wild Party, Marie Christine, Hello Again, See What I Wanna See, Bernarda Alba)
Wynton Marsalis, jazz musician
Rufus Wainwright, contemporary singer-songwriter
Scott Wheeler, composer
and the writing teams of
Tony Kushner (Angels in America; Caroline, or Change) and Jeanine Tesori (Thoroughly Modern Millie; Caroline, or Change)
Michael Torke and Craig Lucas (Prelude to a Kiss, book for The Light in the Piazza)
Rachel Portman and Nicholas Wright (who wrote the opera of The Little Prince together)
Quite a star-studded news story! I can't wait to see some of these, particularly the Guettel, LaChiusa, and Kushner/Tesori operas.
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