All about Eve
Haley Whitney shines as the mother of us all in The Marigny Opera Ballet‘s stirring staging of Scarlatti’s Cain.
Matthew Paul Smith
Matthew Paul Smith is an instructor in the English Department at Tulane University. His publications include a chapter on post-Civil War New Orleans literature in New Orleans: A Literary History (Cambridge UP, 2019) and an article on plantation tourism, narrative, and aesthetics in Southern Quarterly (2018). He has two forthcoming edited collections: The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New Orleans (Cambridge UP) and Cross Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Japan: Foreigners Within the Samurai Class, 1550-1900 (Routledge). He is a native of New Iberia, Louisiana and a current resident of New Orleans.
Darkling I listen
Golda Schultz casts darkness in an alluring light in an intimate recital at the New Orleans Opera Festival.
Festspiel for the consecration of the French Quarter
The inaugural New Orleans Opera Festival goes big across the Big Easy.
Da tempeste
My recollections of Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall in Louisiana twenty years ago today, come with a pair of odd bookends: it starts with Verdi’s Don Carlo and ends with Puccini’s Il trittico.
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).