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.
Golda Schultz casts darkness in an alluring light in an intimate recital at the New Orleans Opera Festival.
The inaugural New Orleans Opera Festival goes big across the Big Easy.
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.
Tell us: What’s your favorite Verdi performance?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
