There’s a parade in town
Les Brigands at the Paris Opera is an expensive joke that never lands
Peter Brook
8 pieces since 2010 — at 1 company, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
8
pieces
1
company
17
years
By company
Devil in disguise
On this day in 1953 the Metropolitan Opera opened its season with a new production of Gounod’s Faust.
Leaner, meaner and tighter
Why did Ted Sperling and MasterVoices choose to perform an old warhorse like Carmen which has been produced almost continuously over decades just up the street at Lincoln Center?
Teeth like razors
A broadcast of Weill and Brecht’s pungent Die Dreigroschenoper
Ghost “Story”
Time to stop being coy, I think. You and I had quite different takeaways on the show, didn’t we?
One thousand four
My mother asked me once, whilst staring aghast at my CD collection, why I needed so many copies of Don Giovanni.
Red shoe diary
La Cieca’s spy wriggled into last night’s Met dress rehearsal of La traviata and reports: “One has to be careful about making too many judgments or drawing too many conclusions from a rehearsal, but last night’s final dress was indeed very promising.”
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).