Two Boys Provoking Debate
Though New Yorkers will unfortunately have to wait until the Met Opera's 2013-2014 season to see a local production of Tony Award-winner Bartlett Sher's staging of Nico Muhly's first opera, Two Boys...
View ArticleMuhly Mania!
On Friday, London's English National Opera gives the world premiere of 20-something composer Nico Muhly's first opera, Two Boys, a work that has already been slated to come to the Metropolitan Opera in...
View ArticleReview: Nico Muhly's Compelling, Uneven Tale of Online Tragedy
This weekend, as the curtain at English National Opera came down on the world premiere of Two Boys– the well publicized first opera by Nico Muhly, with a libretto by Craig Lucas -- I decided to give...
View ArticleWhen is Sexual Orientation Relevant to Opera?
On Friday, June 24, I was leaving Lincoln Center following a production of Janacek’s life- and love-affirming The Cunning Little Vixen at the New York Philharmonic when the first of several texts and...
View ArticleFriends in High Places
My friends, it’s been so long! I’ve missed you all! I’ve been mostly in London and Reykjavik since we last talked, the former city to see Nico Muhly’s opera Two Boys (so good) and the latter to record...
View ArticleWatch: An Evening with Nico Muhly and Two Boys
Join Q2 Music and NPR Music this Tuesday at 10 p.m. ET for a special live video webcast that previews the American debut of composer Nico Muhly's opera Two Boys. The webcast and webchat will be hosted...
View ArticleTangled Web: Internet-Based Opera to Open at Met
NEW YORK (AP) -- Little did Nico Muhly know when he composed Two Boys that the type of Internet deception he based the opera on would keep repeating over and over.So when reports surfaced last winter...
View ArticleReview: Hypnotic and Frank, Muhly's Two Boys Gets U.S. Premiere at the Met
The secret lives of teenagers are often fraught with matters that loom as large as life and death. But at the Metropolitan Opera's U.S. premiere of Two Boys on Monday, numerous lines were crossed in...
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