The Metropolitan Opera announced its 2024–25 season, including the Met premiere of composer John Adams's latest opera, Antony and Cleopatra, on May 12, 2025. The adaptation of Shakespeare's drama stars soprano Julia Bullock, following her company debut in Adams's El Niño this April, as Cleopatra, opposite bass-baritone Gerald Finley's Antony. Adams himself conducts a new staging by director Elkhanah Pulitzer. Read more here.
Na een slome zaterdag volgt een spetterende avond in de Stopera met de voorstelling Perle Noire: Meditations for Josephine. We zijn er met ons uitclubje en dat is altijd gezellig. Ik heb van tevoren alleen gehoord dat zangeres Julia Bullock een prachtige stem heeft. Wanneer we binnenkomen staat het podium vol met indrukwekkende apparatuur: een gigantisch drumstel, een vleugel, een gitaar, een…
Ganna Gryniva returns to her roots on a trek through the Carpathian Mountains, Rebecca Nash draws inspiration from the platinum group metals, and Lana Del Rey samples Harry Nilsson while summoning the spirit of a defunct tunnel in Long Beach. Julia Bullock performs 'One by One' by Connie Converse alongside other folk songs and spirituals, Kate NV finds the playful in the mundane on a track which trills about roadside fruit and vegetables, and music by Joe Chambers, Slikback, Dave Sewelson, and Keiji Haino also features in the best of the week.
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Congratulations to Julia Bullock, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Los Angeles Philharmonic & Gustavo Dudamel, and Thomas Adès, all of whom won GRAMMY Awards, and to Laurie Anderson, who received the Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award!
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