Down for the Count
An uneven new cast can’t dim the glow of Richard Eyre‘s incisive Le nozze di Figaro at the Met
Beaumarchais
7 pieces since 2015.
7
pieces
12
years
Talking to John Raitt, Part One
How did you first grow interested in singing?
Guilt, edged
If Darius Milhaud took a risk in adapting La Mère Coupable as an opera, it wasn’t the quirky, atonal style he used for his score.
A little off the top
Beaumarchais clearly delighted in this unobtrusive realm.
Cherubino jumps the shark
Homer, inspired by many a muse, sang not of sequels to his Iliad.
Married to the mobcap
I have an idea (soon to be angrily debunked in the comments section) that Le nozze di Figaro is rarely a source of unalloyed bliss to the chronic operagoer.
Fireworks
As I leaned forward the woman in front of me turned to her seatmate and very quietly, in a voice thick with emotion and not a few tears, said, “it’s so beautiful.”