It’s not so much that I hated the Met Opera’s Grounded. I’m just not convinced that it should have been an opera.
A conversation with maestro Gil Rose of Odyssey Opera.
Beautiful singing, thoughtful staging, lovely melodies… a perfect escape from daily life.
It is not easy for an opera company to follow a spectacular production of La Traviata with Massenet’s Manon.
I finally get to complete my personal operatic Top Ten this week with Igor Stravinsky’s only full-length opera, The Rake’s Progress.
The big news on Van Ness Avenue, it goes without saying, is Calixto Bieito’s operatic debut on these shores.
Despite the continued popularity of Der Freischütz in German-speaking countries, are the magical mature operas of Carl Maria von Weber otherwise really so problematic, their libretti so unwieldy to explain their continued absence from the world’s stages?
Camille Saint-Saëns was such a brilliant, facile musician that pals like Wagner and Liszt felt a distinct schadenfreude when he suffered composer’s block.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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