What better sentiment can we embrace as the year ends then to hope, often against against hope, for peace and love in a world of chaos?
Chris’s Cache celebrates the 91st birthday today of Janet Baker, one of my favorite singers.
Monteverdi’s late Homeric masterpiece Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria isn’t often performed in the United States.
Britten’s penultimate opera, the anti-war ghost story Owen Wingrave, was composed for television performance in 1971.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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