#cabaretopera — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cabaretopera, aggregated by home.social.
-
Musical Interlude: In 1990, American composer William Bolcom debuted a short "cabaret opera" called Casino Paradise, about a billionaire developer building a luxury casino at an east coast seaside town. Bolcom long insisted that it was not about Donald Trump, but later confessed that it was "more not about Trump than it was not about anyone else," if you follow. I wonder how often it will be revived now.
It's got problems (a lack of focus, and not rising to the opportunity for satire when it could) but at least it has this stunner of a song, not the typical opera aria, but more a powerful down'n'dirty cabaret ballad.
"Night, Make My Day," performed by Janet Metz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnf11C_ySUk
#MusicalInterlude #WilliamBolcom #Opera #Aria #CabaretOpera #JanetMetz
-
Musical Interlude: In 1990, American composer William Bolcom debuted a short "cabaret opera" called Casino Paradise, about a billionaire developer building a luxury casino at an east coast seaside town. Bolcom long insisted that it was not about Donald Trump, but later confessed that it was "more not about Trump than it was not about anyone else," if you follow. I wonder how often it will be revived now.
It's got problems (a lack of focus, and not rising to the opportunity for satire when it could) but at least it has this stunner of a song, not the typical opera aria, but more a powerful down'n'dirty cabaret ballad.
"Night, Make My Day," performed by Janet Metz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnf11C_ySUk
#MusicalInterlude #WilliamBolcom #Opera #Aria #CabaretOpera #JanetMetz