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Opera Today Reviews Carlisle Floyd’s Prince of Players
Opera Today reviews the Florentine Opera Company’s World Premiere recording of Carlisle Floyd’s Prince of Players: “gender and performance are at the heart of the art form that we call opera. If in the 21st century we are having conversations about gender and identity, then – from castrati to en travesti, from Cherubino to Cantonese opera, from Baba the Turk to Octavian – opera has relished gender fluidity since the art form was born. Floyd’s Prince of Players is…
Opera Today Reviews Far In The Heavens
Far In The Heavens: Choral Music of Stephen Paulus receives a strong review in Opera Today: “Stephen Paulus provided the musical world, and particularly the choral world, with music both provocative and pleasing through a combination of lyricism and a modern-Romantic tonal palette. … Like his other large scale oratorios, [Prayers and Remembrances] covers the full range of his expressive and accessible style. … The performance of True Concord Voices and Orchestra is excellent. Paulus’…