Charleston, SC - land of Pat Conroy, shrimp and grits, and George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess- I paid homage to you this weekend. I wandered the streets of Folly Beach and found Dubose Heyward's home on W. Ashley, desolate and faded. I wanted to see where the insurance salesman who penned Porgy had lived. I [...]
Category: Spoleto Festival USA
Another Review of Émilie and Video
This weekend I travelled to Charleston, SC to see all three operas offered by the Spoleto Festival USA - Émilie (Saariaho), The Magic Flute (Mozart) and The Medium (Menotti). Kaija Saariaho's monodrama Émilie had been criticized for it's lack of dramatic impetus, but I found the interior drama of Émilie du Châtelet to be extremely compelling, expressive yet obviously contrived with the [...]
Jimmy Paulk’s Review of the Spoleto Festival: Filling Atlanta’s Gaps…
When the Atlanta Journal-Constitution down-sized and released several of its arts critics a few years ago, the critics created their own online forum in which to publish their assessments of Atlanta arts events. I regularly read http://www.ArtsCriticATL.com because I enjoy Pierre Ruhe's reports of classical music in our southern city. Below I've pasted a link to Jimmy Paulk's review of [...]
Stephanie Adrian 