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4A memorable passage in Marcel Proust’s monumental novel “In Search of Lost Time” (“À la recherche du temps perdu”) describes a beachside hotel dining room as “an immense and wonderful aquarium” stocked full of wealthy people who appear as a variegated assortment of strange fish and exotic mollusks.
Benjamin Makino, placed out of the audience’s sight, conducted an appropriately fluid performance. Dan Weingarten made lighting fit for a watery realm. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation footed the bill with a special grant for a new Long Beach Opera series, “Outer Limits,” of which “Paper Nautilus” was the first.
Modern technology and opera melded seamlessly when the Miami Beach Classical Music Festival presented an immersive production of Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortileges (as part of a double bill with Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi) Saturday night in the ballroom of Temple Emanu-El in Miami Beach. Festival director Michael Rossi’s mappings engulfed the staging’s backdrop and the walls around the space for a surround immersive experience of cinematic proportions.
Comprehending the history of this American tragedy is important to understanding librettist Philip Kan Gotanda’s and composer Max Giteck Duykers’ chamber opera “Both Eyes Open,” which premiered at the Flea Theater in New York on January 12, 2023. A strong sensation of horror sits in your gut when the house lights come on. “Americans did this to other Americans? Oh my God.” Because we have conveniently glossed over details of what Japanese Americans faced, the opera was a gut punch.
