In the week's most interesting collaboration, Robert Wilson gets back into the contemporary opera game in a new work with a score by Bernice Johnson Reagon, late of Sweet Honey in the Rock (and before that of the Freedom Singers). Wilson will get all the press, and maybe with good cause, but, last I looked, if you're calling it an opera, then the composer gets the credit, no? so yay Dr. Reagon.
The next live video cast from Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music is Handel's Xerxes, this weekend, Feb 1 & 2, at 8pm EST, with a rotating cast of students and the occasional ringer. Let me reiterate that this is the program that produced Kate Lindsey and Lawrence Brownlee, among others, so listen for diamonds in the rough.
Tickets for Tanglewood are on sale now -- lots of exchequer-draining opportunities there. (I plan to be cooling my heels in the wayback for the Mahler 3rd with ASvO, at the very least. The Bryn Terfel recital in Ozawa Hall would be nice, too. Also that Mark Morris Dido & Aeneas/Curlew River double bill. And the concert performance of Harbison's The Great Gatsby. And...and...and...)
Single tickets for Glimmerglass are also on sale now. I'm on the fence about this (baroque-less) season, but it does make a nice road trip to cow country.
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