Saturday, July 30, 2016

Carmen: NYCO woos an audience

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Bryant Park, now featuring opera New York is a city I still think of as home, and not least among the many things I miss about it is it...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

Interval Adventures: L'Opéra Garnier

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Palais Garnier Academic travels have taken me to Paris; this loveliest of cities doesn't currently have opera to see, but it does, ...
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Monday, July 18, 2016

Madness in Great Ones: Bryn Terfel's Boris at the Proms

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Terfel as Tsar: Boris Godunov at the London Proms It was due to a timely Tweet from the Royal Opera that I found myself, on Saturday ...
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Saturday, July 2, 2016

In Parenthesis: Remembering WWI at the Royal Opera House

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Andrew Bidlack as Private John Ball, on sentry duty Photo (c) Bill Cooper/WNO July 1 marked the centenary of the beginning of the Somm...
Friday, June 17, 2016

Opera in Prose (and Il Trovatore)

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The progress of my summer reading list has been somewhat slowed by academic responsibility (alas) but I am currently immersed in Alexander...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Reading List: The Real Traviata

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René Weis' new monograph on Marie Duplessis makes big claims even before getting past the title page. Marie Duplessis, the charismatic ...
Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Ein köstlicher Abend: Der König Kandaules in Ghent

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Ghent's opera house I may not be able to travel (much) for opera, but when traveling, I do seek opera out. So, on April 16, I took ...