The naked and the dead The naked and the dead

The controversial production of La traviata from La Monnaie directed by Andrea Breth is now available for viewing online.

on December 22, 2012 at 7:03 PM
L’infelice Aragonese L’infelice Aragonese

Camille Saint-Saëns was such a brilliant, facile musician that pals like Wagner and Liszt felt a distinct schadenfreude when he suffered composer’s block.

on August 22, 2012 at 3:48 PM
The desert song The desert song

You Parterrestrials know all about Santa Fe Opera’s amazing mountain setting and open-sided theater affording breathtaking sunsets, weather-related drama and–when the back stage wall is opened–starry backdrops, but it was my first visit, so indulge me a little.

on August 17, 2012 at 4:07 PM
Joy cometh in the mourning Joy cometh in the mourning

Is the threnody, the lament over a beloved corpse, the oldest form of song? Surely it is among the oldest; one of the most widespread and stylistically various, millennia before opera was devised.

on July 21, 2012 at 5:54 PM
Expect opera, pay less Expect opera, pay less

You may remember, gentle readers, that last year about this time Peter Gelb decided to enter into an unholy alliance with Target to benefit their mountainous number of opera loving customers by pre-releasing two Met performances exclusively in their fine emporiums.

on May 25, 2012 at 12:14 AM
The Regieness is all The Regieness is all

When Quanto Painy Fakor said “Hamlet,” ianw2 replied, “You know what, you may be right.”

on May 06, 2012 at 12:56 AM
Sunday in the park with Tannhäuser Sunday in the park with Tannhäuser

Certain contemporary opera directors have taken to portraying Wagner protagonists as visual artists to better illuminate the characters’ moral and aesthetic struggles.

on April 02, 2012 at 11:21 AM
Questo Weimar rosso Questo Weimar rosso

The case for this DVD production of Puccini’s La Boheme from Opera Australia is all about the “inspired concept” of director Gale Edwards to move this oft-told tale from 1840’s Paris all the way to the Berlin at the end of Weimar-era Germany. Hmmm.

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