![Stabat Mater Fabulosa](http://thehappiestmedium.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/stabat-mater-poster-1024x792.jpg)
The Morningside Opera company offered up a quite singular interpretation of Pergolesi‘s Stabat Mater in their Fabulosa rendition on January 26th at Dixon Place, which proved, at once, a scholarly as well as a quite literal undressing of the original. Composed in 1736 – the year of Pergolesi’s death at the august age of 26 ... Read The Full Article...
![Paris](http://thehappiestmedium.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Paris.png)
I like nothing better than being naughty at the Opera. Neophytes might consider this akin to making out in the last pew of church but, actually, it’s not. I mean, really. Generally, no matter which opera you’re attending there’s all this drama unfolding in front of you … all this intense emotion, this deep passion, ... Read The Full Article...
![COMPANY XIV COMPANY XIV](http://thehappiestmedium.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/TEAPARTY_COMPANY_XIV-p-703x1024.jpg)
Can you die from too much beauty? Probably not. But if you could, I came close to doing so as I watched Company XIV “A mixed media Neo-Baroque dance-theatre company” spin Le Cirque Féerique (The Fairy Circus) into being in front of my dazzled eyes last weekend. The show consists of a series of fairy tales ... Read The Full Article...