As Adès premieres an orchestral work, “The Exterminating Angel” is receiving something rare in contemporary opera: a new production. By Joshua Barone Not everything was an artistic or audience success ...
One of the reasons, if a lesser one, that Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps ("The Rite of Spring") created a scandal at its Paris premiere on May 29, 1913 –more than a century ago now– was that, ...