Les Brigands at the Paris Opera is an expensive joke that never lands
On this day in 1953 the Metropolitan Opera opened its season with a new production of Gounod’s Faust.
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?
A broadcast of Weill and Brecht’s pungent Die Dreigroschenoper
Time to stop being coy, I think. You and I had quite different takeaways on the show, didn’t we?
My mother asked me once, whilst staring aghast at my CD collection, why I needed so many copies of Don Giovanni.
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.”
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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