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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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We were dead, you know

The setting: a dark plaza extending directly in front of a storied opera house. The time: just after a ho-hum revival of something Puccini. The crowd streams out, moderately satisfied but also far from bowled over. A group open to a proposition, you could say.   Read more »

Greater performances?

nixon_in_chinaOur sometime correspondent Seth Colter Walls sees in new PBS leadership a chance for a wider reach for “the splashiest happenings in America’s resurgent classical-music culture.” [Newsweek]

The never-ending story

renee_seth_zackZack Woolfe, shirtless, and Seth Colter Walls take the High Line when deconstructing Dark Hope. [The Awl]