“Nothing is what I’m try to keep and go forward with. Nothing. Thank you.” Those were Wayne Shorter's parting words to the audience at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica on Friday night after the ...

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 ...

Nicole Estaphan sits down with Grammy-winning bassist Esperanza Spalding to discuss her work on a groundbreaking new opera, Iphigenia. Nicole Estaphan sits down with Grammy-winning bassist Esperanza ...

“I got it into my head I could help bring together a group of people, funding and support he needed to make [this] happen," Esperanza Spalding said of her collaboration with Wayne Shorter on ...

The hills of Olympus have never been more than a few strums of the lyre away from the stages of the theater, but lately the mist of mythology has seemed particularly thick. The Met just launched its ...

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 ...