The comeback
David Daniels has just confided that he has this week received two singing engagement offers in Europe.
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A second allegation against David Daniels
“A University of Michigan student is suing the school and renowned opera singer David Daniels, also a U-M professor, alleging Daniels sexually assaulted him.”
Why we fight
“Over the years, I have often been asked why I feel my sexuality is anyone’s business and why I am so open about it in print.”
Blackberry winner
Washingtonians enjoyed a happy reunion this past Sunday with David Daniels.
Return of the king
Fifteen years after his first parterre box interview, that criterion of countertenors David Daniels speaks of Oscar Wilde, Marilyn Horne, marriage and political art.
Top hatters
Christopher Alden‘s production of Handel’s Partenope is so erudite and theatrically audacious and also such a rollicking ride, it’s hard to believe it isn’t crap.
West side, east side
Recently, opera showed up at both Mets, the Metropolitan Opera and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Theodora goes wild
Joined by the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, The English Concert concluded the US leg of its current tour at Carnegie Hall Sunday with a complete performance of the darkly moving Theodora, Handel’s penultimate oratorio.
Deeds of kindness to review
For decades thousands and thousands have attended Handel’s Messiah (usually around Christmas or more appropriately near Easter) making it easily one of the most widely known works of classical music.
F. and Furious
Has it been a year already? Apparently so.
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).