“After putting off for a week trying to make some sense of the horrific mess that is the Met’s new Faust, I’m finally just going to give up. There are some disasters that bear writing about as what you might call teaching opportunities: this season’s Don Giovanni, for example, as a cautionary tale about the…

By on December 09, 2011 at 12:05 PM
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Yes, in this interview with Naomi Lewin, the word “fiasco” gets thrown around a lot.

By on December 02, 2011 at 11:43 AM
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A press release just received from the Met ends with what feels like a SAT question that didn’t quite make it out of the gate. The background on the company’s impending HD of Faust includes the following tantalizing paragraph: “The traditional setting for Faust is 16th-century Germany, a time when alchemists and philosophers were familiar…

By on December 01, 2011 at 12:54 PM
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Leave it to those Torontonians to blow the lid off an opera story happening in New York! (Goodness knows the local journalists don’t bother.)

By on November 28, 2011 at 10:19 PM
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