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Hold On To Your Hats!
Date: 5/19/2010 By Gregory Sullivan Isaacs, Theater Jones
Fort Worth Opera pushes the envelope—again—with its 2011 season announcement.
"The Fort Worth Opera's 2011 season was announced Wednesday night on its Facebook page (and that was sent via iPhone—talk about an arts company being technologically up to date).
If you saw it there, you might have seen the first title, Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado, and thought, "cute." Then, with Verdi’s Il Trovatore, "ambitious." Next up was Handel’s Julius Caesar. "Wow, brave." They have never done Handel before. Still, it didn't sound like a very Darren Woods-y season.
Those three titles, from the 19th century and earlier, are about as edgy as a kumquat.
But wait. There's a fourth title: Hydrogen Jukebox, a rarely preformed 1990 chamber opera based on Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl, with music by Philip Glass. That one might have made your eyes pop out two feet in front of your face, like in a cartoon, complete with the accompanying honking noise. Howl is one of the most notorious poems ever written."
Read the complete article on TheaterJones.com here.
Date: 5/19/2010 By Gregory Sullivan Isaacs, Theater Jones
Fort Worth Opera pushes the envelope—again—with its 2011 season announcement.
"The Fort Worth Opera's 2011 season was announced Wednesday night on its Facebook page (and that was sent via iPhone—talk about an arts company being technologically up to date).
If you saw it there, you might have seen the first title, Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado, and thought, "cute." Then, with Verdi’s Il Trovatore, "ambitious." Next up was Handel’s Julius Caesar. "Wow, brave." They have never done Handel before. Still, it didn't sound like a very Darren Woods-y season.
Those three titles, from the 19th century and earlier, are about as edgy as a kumquat.
But wait. There's a fourth title: Hydrogen Jukebox, a rarely preformed 1990 chamber opera based on Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl, with music by Philip Glass. That one might have made your eyes pop out two feet in front of your face, like in a cartoon, complete with the accompanying honking noise. Howl is one of the most notorious poems ever written."
Read the complete article on TheaterJones.com here.
