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  • louannd: I remember seeing Le Nozze in Santa Fe in 2000 with R...
  • Camille: Oh, Ava is so beautiful in this part -- what's not to love? ...
  • quinquin1: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csKwhUIbrvs&feature=rela...
  • quinquin1: Damn, i hope the make a dvd of this!!!! Jonas and Anja in DO...
  • brooklynpunk: This is even making me nostalgic for the rather horrible MG...
  • Camille: Okay, I concede that the speech styling sucks.
  • Camille: "grateful to hear it AT all", I meant.Thanks guys for th...
  • Camille: I am very grateful to hear it all -- they are doing it in a ...
  • brooklynpunk: ...I admit, that the reprise of Old Man River, at ...
  • brooklynpunk: Nathan Gunn DOES have the correct singing style dow...

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What does a Principal Guest Conductor do?

be_our_guestLa Cieca’s question here is exactly what we should be expecting Fabio Luisi to do as a “Guest” at the Met over the next few years? Will he get his own projects, or is going be end up relegated to being Jimmy’s standby (Der Levinespringer)? Read more »

“L’etoile fait tout”

star_thumb“Maybe this bold staging was a little overwrought. But when you have Ms. Garanca as Carmen, why not?” Anthony Tommasini offers an object lesson in the art of Criticism as Starfucking. Read more »