Lisa Hirsch
Lisa Hirsch studied music at Brandeis University and Stony Brook. She studied flute seriously for a number of years and has sung a wide variety of music in many choruses. She has written about opera and classical music for San Francisco Classical Voice, Opera News (RIP), Opera, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She blogs about these subjects at Iron Tongue of Midnight, which also includes many of her photos.
Though she has attended San Francisco Opera and other companies since the early 1980s, her opera obsession really started in the early 90s, when she started listening to historic singers.
Le nozze di Figaro in Santa Fe is a light and kindly revival while The Turn of the Screw is crisp and atmospheric
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.
The Santa Fe Opera’s fine first Die Walküre finds Wagner in America at a crossroads.
Rigoletto at The Santa Fe Opera is a near miss.
La bohème at The Santa Fe Opera feels warmed over in more ways than one.
