REVIEW: U.S. premiere of Pink Floyd opera a visual spectacle

One thing is certain: “Another Brick in the Wall,” the new opera fashioned after Pink Floyd’s album “The Wall,” is neither Puccini nor Pink Floyd. Cincinnati Opera presented the United States premiere on Friday of “Another Brick in the Wal.....»»

In a rehearsal room backstage at Cincinnati Opera last week, directors were helping the supers learn how to “crowd-surf” a fan at a rock show. That scene – in which the adoring fan is called up to the stage by Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, o.....»»

Cincinnati Opera has become a leader in adding to the opera canon, thanks to Opera Fusion: New Works. Now the company has released its second live recording of an opera that was born and premiered in Cincinnati.  The live audio recordi.....»»

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Squiggles of light shot across a scrim on Music Hall’s stage, at the start of Ravel’s enchanting little opera, “L’enfant et les sortilèges” (The Child and the Sorceries”). The tiny forms darted and grew into animated creatures, fantasti.....»»

Karwai Tang/Getty Images Margot Robbie attended the "Birds of Prey" premiere in London, England, on Wednesday. She walked the red carpet wearing a Dries Van Noten .....»»

It’s hard to know where to begin when summarizing the 125th anniversary concert presented by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra on Saturday night. There was the massive spectacle of the expanded orchestra, May Festival Chorus, piano soloist and .....»»

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It was a bold choice for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra to program Schumann’s long-neglected oratorio “Das Paradies und die Peri” (“Paradise and the Peri”). Although a success when Schumann conducted its premiere in 1843, the work fell o.....»»

Roger Waters Stunned At Assange's Plight: "Orwell & Huxley Were Both Right" Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters has been an outspoken advocate for Julian Assange, but the most recent sight o.....»»

At the conclusion of Christopher Rouse’s new Symphony No. 6, muted strings played a halting motive over a low drone in the double basses. That dark drone continued, alone and serene, for some time, finally stopped by the sound of a soft, resonant.....»»

Richard Strauss’ zany “Ariadne auf Naxos” is an “opera-within-an-opera.” It’s also a mashup of serious and buffo, highbrow and lowbrow and, in Cincinnati Opera’s new production, Greek mythology and Hollywood glam.  The challenge posed.....»»

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A day after wowing Cincinnati audiences with his performances of Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Daniil Trifonov gave the U.S. premiere of his own Piano Quintet in D Major at the Linton Chamber Music Serie.....»»

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The sheer spectacle of 148 musicians on Music Hall’s stage was striking. And when Louis Langrée led the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in Varèse’s huge orchestral canvas “Amériques,” the effect was sometimes ear-splitting. Langrée’s colo.....»»

For its 99th season, Cincinnati Opera will present three operatic favorites – Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” Gounod’s “Romeo and Juliet” and a new production of Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos.” It will also revisit the great America.....»»

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The Hawaii Symphony Orchestra is bringing another giant of rock‘n’roll to Honolulu to this fall when the music of Pink Floyd fills the Neal S. Blaisdell concert hall. The symphony is bringing Windborne Music, which performed the music of Journe.....»»

Happy Tuesday morning, Columbus. The Ohio State University football team has played four games this season and I have yet to watch a single down. Yes, I understand that not watching every second of every game is sacrilege to many scarlet and gray.....»»