ArtsPR, Italy, Ireland and Newark, NJ, 1981-2025
Newark, Italy and me (Lulu.com), Off-Broadway and The Met Opera 2021-24.
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Daniel P Quinn | New Jersey
I heard and saw the stirring brilliant revival of UN BALLO IN MASCHERA.
I endured the mediocre scores od DEAD MAN WALKING and the AMAZONAS score more like a Zarzuella than an opera.
WOZZECK; LUCIA, and CARMEN were all undermined by wretched new productions on PBS.
Heard Yannick with Philly orchestra at NJPAC and they were bri;;iant. The Met not so much !!!
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DPQuinn | New Jersey 12/30/21
The recent Met production of Alban Berg's WOZZECK was so overdesigned that Berg's score became background music in the PBS broadcast. Every moment of MAGIC FLUTE is over-produced. BUTTERFLY (with inspired moments ruined with black clothed techs) as over the top. COSI FAN TUTTE at Coney Island was another fiasco. Submersion is not a solution. Wildly overinflated budgets that undermine the work itself make chaos not art.
Historic Events in Newark, NJ over 3 centuries from the Academy of Music (19th Century) below to St. Benedict's and Rutgers University at NJIT when I was guest director too for Edward Bond's play DEREK.
Newark, Italy and me (Lulu.com) garners 5 stars with an Amazon review in 2021.
Editor’s Note: Mr. Quinn is the author of “Newark, Italy + Me.” You can purchase his book at Amazon.
Our premiere of Edward Bond's play DEREK at NJIT Theatre presented by Rutgers University in 1989.
HMS PINAFORE with St. Benedict's Prep. Drama Guild under the late great director Frank Torok in 1966.
I was a mess-boy at rear left.
