Michael Gordon and Deborah Artman’s unsettling chamber opera, directed by Daniel Fish, unfolds with the scraping sounds of a horror film. By Ben Brantley ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — These are eyes you ...

2 OH, MARY! Reveals Tour Dates and Cities For 2026-27 To complement Grace (live), Evidence gives the first performances of Mercy, which Brown created especially for SummerScape 2019. The new work ...

Casting has been announced for the Bard SummerScape production of Acquanetta, a new musical by composer Michael Gordon and librettist Deborah Artman that will run July 11–21 in Annandale–On–Hudson, ...

"I know you want everything to be clear and simple" is the last chorus of the fabulous chamber opera, "Acquanetta", about the voluptuous, B-movie actress who had a sunstorm of celebrity in the 1940s.

NEW YORK — A large screen looms over the stage. Projected onto it is a black-and-white close-up on an eyeball, fluttering in a state of nervous distress. An overture, powered by distorted electric ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — These are eyes you could truly get lost in, and probably never emerge from. They belong to the title character of “Acquanetta,” a spine-tingling chamber opera by Michael ...