Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Grammy-winning Intelligence makes a largely successful East Coast debut at Virginia Opera.
In any case, we probably got as good a Tannhäuser cast as could be assembled these days.
We watch Peter Grimes being made into a deviant— a process that can take place through the mechanism of the law, but often happens outside of it through social processes.
This sterling revival shows the Metropolitan to be surviving well and in good shape.
Why did I mostly want to close my eyes and just listen?
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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