Gesualdo: Rebel or Rogue?
February 6, 2012 – 6:00 am | No Comment

Carlo Gesualdo was a prince and landholder in Venosa in southeastern Italy. Around 1588 his wife began an affair with a gentleman in the vicinity. In 1590 Gesualdo, found the pair in bed together, stabbed them both, and hung their corpses in front of his castle for all to see. The story was retold repeatedly by poets of the day in a sixteenth-century equivalent of headline news. Was Gesualdo really a renegade as well as a murderer? Was he even a “modernist” of his time?

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People Are Talking [and Video Booth]: Einstein on the Beach at Power Center
January 20, 2012 – 12:00 am | 90 Comments
People Are Talking [and Video Booth]: Einstein on the Beach at Power Center

Tell us what you thought! This is the place to comment on the performance and talk to other people about what you saw and heard. Don’t forget to click the option to be notified when …

Categories: Featured Posts, Theater & Dance, Uncategorized
All Einstein Coverage Round Up
January 11, 2012 – 3:01 pm | No Comment
All Einstein Coverage Round Up

A round-up of Einstein on the Beach coverage.

Categories: Featured Posts, In the Community, Theater & Dance
UMS Night School Report – Einstein on the Beach
January 11, 2012 – 8:19 am | No Comment
UMS Night School Report – Einstein on the Beach

Leslie Stainton covers the first night of UMS Night School, where she learned the meaning of “maverick.” VIDEO interview with UMS Head Usher Dennis Carter as he prepares to usher at the Einstein on the Beach preview performances.

Categories: Featured Posts, Theater & Dance, Uncategorized
Three Trucks, 28 Crew Members, 37 Performers: Einstein on the Beach Load-in at the Power Center
January 9, 2012 – 9:40 am | No Comment
Three Trucks, 28 Crew Members, 37 Performers: Einstein on the Beach Load-in at the Power Center

Inside the Power Center 14 days before the opening of Einstein on the Beach, it’s not immediately clear that this is, “hands down, the biggest show ever” to hit this auditorium, as UMS programming manager Mark Jacobson told me shortly before we entered the theater. But after an hour or so of listening to production manager Will Knapp talk about the challenges of mounting the giant opera here in Ann Arbor, I began to see what Jacobson meant.

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UMS on Film Series
October 11, 2011 – 9:30 am | No Comment
UMS on Film Series

Our 5 film picks for the 11/12 UMS Season!