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Sarah announces herself from the stairwell: “…are you afraid of me, too? Like everyone else?” An ever-present voice resonating from all corners of Anti-Aging, her presence looms large over Lynn Hershman Leeson’s current exhibition.
Being a massive opera star is only a narrow slice of Costanzo’s purview: not only is he a tireless campaigner on behalf of the art form itself, enchanting school children in the Bronx and helping to coordinate Orfeo-spinoff mini-operas in a school in Brooklyn, he has joyously commandeered the project of becoming the historian of his singing genre.
The Brooklyn Rail is a journal committed to providing an independent forum for visual arts, culture, and politics throughout New York City and beyond.
There’s a marked element of excess thought surrounding this adventurous ten-day Berlin festival of “moderne” composition. Its schedule is loaded with afternoon discussions, panels, laboratories, and general conceptual wrangling, but much of the evening performances are emphatically visceral, jagged, unpredictable, and disobedient toward implied traditional staging requirements of new works.
Micaela Warren (she/her) has poetry published in The Normal Review, and is studying English at Montclair State University. She lives in Hawthorne, NJ.