A.J. Goldmann
A.J. Goldmann is an American writer and critic based in Munich and Berlin. He is a longtime contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Forward. He has also written for The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Guardian, The Spectator and Gramophone Magazine. Between 2007 and 2023, when it folded, he was the Berlin, Vienna and
Salzburg correspondent for Opera News Magazine.
An opera about the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics was never going to be an easy task.
A Baroque Valentine’s with Opera Lafayette | Feb | DC & NYC
Celebrate love in all its guises with tender ballads, amorous duets, cheeky verses, and bawdy drinking songs plus food, cocktails and wine.
This summer’s festival, taking place amid record high temperatures and in the wake of its artistic director, Pierre Audi, featured a disquietingly zeigeisty focus on sexual violence.
Tell us: What was the best of 2025?
Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
