If getting an established opera off the production ground is difficult and enormously expensive, it’s even tougher when the work is brand-new. So what’s the aspiring Wagner of today to do? One answer, as Sabrina Peña Young will tell you, is to choose the early 21st-century default option and go online — to be Wagner 2.0, if you like. Peña Young, a bubbly, intensely energetic … [Read more...]
The View From Home 40: New DVD releases and notable screenings, July 10-31
Everything old is new again. In 2005, The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society commissioned a film adaptation of the sci-fi’s master’s classic The Call of Cthulu. Since the book was written in 1927, the filmmakers shot their picture contemporaneously as a silent film. Outside of the eccentric canon of Guy Maddin, this idea was almost unheard-of then, and even post-Artist, silent … [Read more...]