Is there any opera that can take more of a beating while still making an impact than Eugene Onegin?
Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, and a slew of their members of court are hanging out in the afterlife…
Renée Fleming is one of the most polarizing figures to be discussed here on an ongoing basis.
My first experience with John Corigliano’s music was in high school with the ear and mind blowing score he wrote for Ken Russell’s film Altered States.
Zofia Posmysz spent two years as a prisoner in Auschwitz—and she’s still alive and standing pretty tall, in New York for the Lincoln Center Festival God bless her.
André Previn‘s A Streetcar Named Desire, with the “People’s Diva” herself in the iconic role of the unstable Blanche DuBois.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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