New Opera NYC hatches The Golden Cockerel.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
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| Tsar wars: Mikhail Svetlov as King Dodon in The Golden Cockerel. Photo courtesy New Opera NYC. |
In New York City it is a rare pleasure to hear Russian opera that isn't by Tchaikovsky or Mussorgsky. So it was a treat to learn that the plucky New Opera NYC, founded three years ago by director Igor Konyukhov chose to mount The Golden Cockerel, the final stage work by composer Nokolai Rimsky-Korsakov as part of the ongoing New York Opera Festival. Friday night’s show was the second of five at the Sheen Center, a converted vaudeville house on Bleecker Street that works perfectly well for opera on a modest scale.
