On September 25, under a ruined proscenium, on a parking deck, among ravers, punks, scenesters, and opera-lovers, as champagne for spent performers flowed nearby—grace arrived. Nine singers, four actors, a 15-member orchestra, and a conductor had been looping the same 150-second passage from “Le nozze di Figaro” without pause for 11 hours and 50 minutes, […]
Author Archives: Nick Stevens
Nick Stevens is a musicologist at Naxos of America, and a writer on music. He previously taught music history at colleges and universities across the U.S. Midwest. His first book, Crisis Mode: Opera as Form and Medium After the End of History, is in progress and under contract with University of Michigan Press. He lives near Nashville, Tennessee.