'Viva Carmen' review: Georges Bizet opera becomes animated family film

My first reaction when I heard of a new animated feature film adaptation of Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera, Carmen was that, ...
IndieWire

‘Opera’: A Provocative Animated Short Confronts Never-Ending Polarization

The Oscar nominee by former Pixar animator Erick Oh offers a giant pyramid of everyday activities that divide humanity. Erick Oh’s “Opera” is an outlier in the race for Best Animated Short. Inspired ...
The Stranger

Seattle Opera’s Animated Take on Mozart’s The Magic Flute Is Exquisite, Riveting, and Weird as Hell

every eight or 10 years, and understandably—it’s a marketing slam dunk, and everyone goes to hear the coloratura sing the Queen of the Night’s badass aria, “Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen” ...
ABC7 San Francisco

Animated opera tells the story of farmworkers during the pandemic through song

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Inspiration comes in many forms. For Hector Armienta, it was watching farmworkers last year as they picked crops with minimal protection even though the pandemic was at its ...
San Francisco Examiner

Opera gets animated on film in ‘Everest’

In their years working together at Opera Parallèle, conductor Nicole Paiement and director Brian Staufenbiel have gained a reputation for innovative live productions of new and unusual works. Now they ...