Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Trouble In Tahiti' & 'Winterreise' Two one-act mini-operas staged in April by Ensemble Parallele (Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti and Barber's Hand of Bridge) at Z Space showed couples wallowing in conjugal misery and midlife crisis. Yet, through
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: 'The Great Gatsby' Composer John Harbison The Great Gatsby takes an unsentimental glimpse into the conspicuous, arrogant life of the 1%, which makes it an unlikely subject for an opera. After all, that is the percentile that would be
Arts & Entertainment The Ensemble Parallele's <em>Wozzeck</em> The premiere of Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck on December 15, 1925 opened to a huge success, the composer receiving the wild adulation of the crowd. You'd thought he'd be pleased with himself, having
