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Sarah Kirkland Snider’s ‘Hildegard’ Wins Critics’ Nod As Best New Opera

Prototype Festival continues with Snider’s luminous Hildegard

Elkhanah Pulitzer’s efficient and visually engaging production straddles reality and Eastern mysticism, with little overt Christian symbolism.

Review: Snider’s Brilliant Score Anchors HILDEGARD at Prototype under Pulitzer’s Caring Eye

The production is splendidly directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer...

Review: Hildegard of Bingen’s Extraordinary Life, on Operatic Scale

In Elkhanah Pulitzer’s spare production, the mundane and modest constantly clash, and eventually merge, with the world of Hildegard’s hallucinatory visions. Marsha Ginsberg’s sets mixed everyday items, including a bed and a desk, with elements inspired by icons and reliquaries, like a miniature church and a room made to look like a golden display case.

Sarah Kirkland Snider Searches for Authenticity with Hildegard at LA Opera

Director Elkhanah Pulitzer successfully employed Artwork and Projection Designer Deborah Johnson's undulating computer-generated images, with delicate lighting design by Pablo Santiago, to illustrate the weirdness and otherworldliness of Hildegard's vivid nightmares.

World premiere of “Hildegard” Opera review

Elkhanah Pulitzer’s superb direction, supported by the stunning projections and simple yet elegant staging and scenic design, transformed the stage into a heavenly realm of spiritual wonder.

Hildegard von Bingen was a saint, an abbess, a mystic, a pioneering composer and is now an opera

Elkhanah Pulitzer’s production is decorous and spare.

West Edge Opera’s ‘Wozzeck’ is a brutal wake-up call — and one of the best shows you’ll see this year

In stage director Elkhanah Pulitzer’s words, “the opera reveals how choices driven by war, greed, and disregard for life cascade downward, devastating those with the least freedom and agency.” Pulitzer brings that vision into sharp focus in her coruscating production of the 1925 work for West Edge Opera

Sweeping Change Puts An Irresistible New Face On Spoleto Festival USA

Layering on stage direction at Sottile Theatre by Elkhanah Pulitzer, scenic and lighting design by Seth Reiser, and costumes by Molly Irelan, Weilerstein crafted her FRAGMENTS into a creation you literally had to see.

Good things take time.

Antony and Cleopatra: Adams gives free rein to his sense of musical colour

This production is from Elkhanah Pulitzer, a Met debut for the Massachusetts director, and sets events in the glitzy Hollywood of the 1930’s. Her rationale is that everyone has an idée fixe of Cleo and Antony, based on immersion from childhood in the iconic Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton encounter.

The Met’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ Reframes Ancient Tragedy Through the Lens of Propaganda

At the Met’s Antony and Cleopatra, the Music and Dancers Own the Show

Elkanah Pulitzer’s production flips back and forth between Alexandria and Rome with action-movie ease.

John Adams: Antony and Cleopatra review – European premiere fuelled by molten chemistry

Pulitzer's staging, designed by Mimi Lien, with video interludes by Bill Morrison conjuring 1940s newsreels in the era of Italian fascism, was handsome and efficient.

BARCELONA / ‘Antony & Cleopatra’ by John Adams imposes its dramatic intensity on the Liceu

Cleopatra has power again

Elkhanah Pulitzer's staging is a temporal ellipsis....In the end it is a clear and coherent staging with the text, lively in its acting and cinematography in its development.

‘Fragments’ Proposes a New Kind of Cello Recital

Weilerstein and her director, Elkhanah Pulitzer, are aiming to rethink how artists connect with their audiences by reconfiguring the traditional concert format, which they feel has gotten, if not quite stale, predictable. An element of surprise — and the abandonment of preconceived notions — is critical to their concept.

Francesconi: Quartett again in the States

An interview with director Elkhanah Pulitzer and conductor John Kennedy about their forthcoming production at the West Edge Opera Summer Festival.

Elkhanah Pulitzer on Directing Bernstein’s Massive ‘Mass’

The Virtual Greenroom With John Adams & Elkhanah Pulitzer