Emma Hoffman
Emma Hoffman is a graduate of Barnard College. In 20 years she’ll be a crusty Upper West Sider in a babushka.
This July, Munich played host to hordes of football fans in town for the European Championship—and arguably the two finest working sopranos today.
By Emma Hoffman
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Matthew Polenzani strode into the Park Avenue Armory’s Board of Officers Room last Monday evening and was received like a beloved friend–and indeed that is what he is to many of New York’s opera-goers.
By Emma Hoffman
Her star is indeed on the rise, but squarely on her terms.
By Emma Hoffman
When it premiered at the Opéra Comique in 1875, Carmen shocked audiences with its frank depictions of female sexuality, the proletariat, and violence: subjects that have ensured the piece’s continued relevance and that have inspired numerous retellings and revisions.
By Emma Hoffman
It’s not hard not to feel jaded about Romeo and Juliet.
By Emma Hoffman
With its sumptuous wood paneling, frescoed ceilings, and various Gilded Age trappings, the Park Avenue Armory’sBoard of Officers Room certainly is not a bad place to spend Valentine’s Day—even better when it plays host to equally sumptuous music-making.
By Emma Hoffman
How many hours of our lives are spent looking back?
By Emma Hoffman
There is a strong case to be made that George Fridrich Handel is the composer most suited to the present moment.
By Emma Hoffman
Although primarily known as a vanguard of the Downtown music scene, John Zorn’s artistic and intellectual ethos is at home at the decidedly Uptown institution of Columbia University.
By Emma Hoffman
This Sunday marked a muted return of the Richard Tucker Foundation Gala, which had the dubious distinction of the fourth edition not to feature a prizewinner and perhaps the first not to provide complete orchestral and choral accompaniment for its performers.
By Emma Hoffman
It’s autumn in New York, baby.
By Emma Hoffman
How appropriate that the Met should present this supposedly “Jewish” opera after many in the audience had just spent twelve days immersed in the genuine article over the High Holy Days.
By Emma Hoffman
