Opera: It’s hard to imagine a more challenging subject than that of the Polish-Soviet composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s 1968 opera, The Passenger. Written for the Bolshoi but shelved, it was not performed until 2010, when it made its sensational debut at the Bregenz Festival in Austria. Tonight, Florida Grand Opera brings that David Pountney-directed production to the Ziff Ballet … [Read more...]
Symphonia Boca Raton gets season off to boisterous start
An energized and muscular Symphonia Boca Raton opened its new season Sunday afternoon with a spirited appearance by a guest conductor and violin soloist who made the most of a mostly meat-and-potatoes program. Alastair Willis, who is closing his tenure this coming year as the conductor of the young Illinois Symphony (which plays in Springfield and Bloomington), led the … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: May 23-24
Film: For those obsessing over growing old, Swedish director Felix Herngren serves up a puckish comedy, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, starring a renowned comic actor from his country, Robert Gustafsson, as a man who makes his escape from his nursing home just as he approaches his century mark. He does indeed slip out a window and relives his … [Read more...]