LoftOpera dazzles Bushwick with an aerial Comte Ory.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
It all started with a pair of flying nuns.
On Thursday night in Bushwick, LoftOpera offered the penultimate performance of Le Comte Ory at the close of the 2015-16 spring season. This wild Rossini comedy that, almost two centuries after its 1828 debut has finally found its audience in the 21st century. The nuns in question were aerialists Nicki Miller and Chriselle Tidrick. The venue was The Muse, a circus training facility by day and cabaret by night, located hard by the railroad on a stretch of Moffat Street where the sidewalk (quite literally) ends.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
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| Bed-shaped: Thorsteinn Arbornsson (left) Sharin Apostolou (center) and Elizabeth Pojanowski negotiate in the final scene of Le Comte Ory. Photo by Robert Altman © 2016 LoftOpera. |
On Thursday night in Bushwick, LoftOpera offered the penultimate performance of Le Comte Ory at the close of the 2015-16 spring season. This wild Rossini comedy that, almost two centuries after its 1828 debut has finally found its audience in the 21st century. The nuns in question were aerialists Nicki Miller and Chriselle Tidrick. The venue was The Muse, a circus training facility by day and cabaret by night, located hard by the railroad on a stretch of Moffat Street where the sidewalk (quite literally) ends.
