The kindness of Previn
Renée Fleming is one of the most polarizing figures to be discussed here on an ongoing basis.
Anthony Dean Griffey
11 pieces since 2013 — in 6 roles, at 5 companies, most often at Carnegie Hall.
11
pieces
6
roles
5
companies
14
years
Role Harold "Mitch" Mitchell
Role Mitch
Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable
André Previn‘s A Streetcar Named Desire, with the “People’s Diva” herself in the iconic role of the unstable Blanche DuBois.
Role Mr. Strutt
The beautiful doom is empty
The Met is on it with something something woker than woke: a noirish psychodrama of a frigid hysteric who seeks redemption via Freudian analysis!
Role Peter Grimes
The year in Yohalem
My memory is fading but the events I recall most vividly of the last season seem largely to have been concert performances.
Britten on the wind
Ambiguity. That’s the theme of the operas of Benjamin Britten (ennobled as Baron Britten of Aldeburgh).
Role Rabbi
Getting to know jews, getting to know all about jews
The creation of Kurt Weill’s The Eternal Road and its lately remodeled avatar, The Road of Promise, boiled down and premiered at Carnegie Hall Wednesday night by the Collegiate Chorale and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, was an intricate process, far more interesting than the work itself.
Role Zacarias
It’s raining Mennonites
The music was at every point dramatically compelling, without seeming cheap or manipulative.