Knowing when to leave will never let you reach the point of no return
With San Francisco Opera’s orchestra on strike and bass Andrew Potter retiring at 43, Miles Greenberg sees opera’s ethics and economics of impracticality at a breaking point
Miles Greenberg
Miles Greenberg is a PhD candidate in Historical Musicology at the University of Rochester - Eastman School of Music, where his research focuses on 17th-century Italian Vocal Music.
The gaul of some people
It’s Norma, darling. We know.
Canonically ossified
When such a canonically ossified work like Verdi’s Aïda is directed at all (let alone as ambitiously as Damiano Michieletto at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino), it does feel like a completely different opera
Changing habits
A new production of Dialogues des Carmélites featuring Anna Caterina Antonacci proves that it’s hard to be an iconoclast in Venice.
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).