My recollections of Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall in Louisiana twenty years ago today, come with a pair of odd bookends: it starts with Verdi’s Don Carlo and ends with Puccini’s Il trittico.
Readers, writers, and stars reflect on the 30th anniversary of “the most essential blog in opera” (NYT)
At one point I spent a couple of months on the dole and dollar record shopping had a number of obvious virtues as a pastime.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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