Wednesday, March 2, 2011

First review of Canadian Opera Company at BAM

Lepage's Watery, Magical "Nightingale" Lepage's staging of Stravinsky's fable "The Nightingale" surfaces in a wading pool at BAM



This photo provided by the Brooklyn Academy of Music shows Russian bass Ilya Bannik in the role of The Emperor is presented with the mechanical bird from Japan during the final dress rehearsal of "The Nightingale" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House Feb. 28, 2011, in New York. (AP Photo/Brooklyn Academy of Music, Jack Vartoogian)