Iphigenia, played by esperanza spalding, prepares for her sacrifice. From Wayne Shorter and spalding's opera, ...(Iphigenia). There's a key metaphor nestled near the midpoint of ...(Iphigenia), the ...

One year ago, in March 2023, we lost one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers ever: Wayne Shorter. He had a career that lasted over 60 years: starting out with the classic bebop pioneers in ...

When jazz saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter was a New York University student in the ’50s, he decided to write an opera inspired in part by the Marlon Brando movie “The Wild One.” “It was about a ...

The pair took a close look at the subtexts of Euripides' sad, epic tale of Iphigenia — agency, testosterone, violence, faith — and, through a... There's a key metaphor nestled near the midpoint of ...

There's a key metaphor nestled near the midpoint of ...(Iphigenia), the audacious, iconoclastic new opera by Wayne Shorter and esperanza spalding. A revisionary take on a canonical tale — mainly ...