Blue it
Jeanine Tesori’s Blue is an ambitious and worthy opera that deserves a better presentation than it got at Lincoln Center on Saturday.
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Now and at the hour of our death
This evening of Julius Eastman at Lincoln Center was so good it hurt
Close encounters
Zauberland: An Encounter with Schumann’s Dichterliebe touched on themes of forced migration, loss, exile, and dehumanization.
She has immortal longings in her
All right, folks, if you’re going to troll La Cieca, you might try just a little subtlety.
There ought to be clowns
Have you ever had the unfortunate experience of listening to someone tell a joke badly?
Everything is illuminated
Few new operas have received the near-unanimous acclaim that has greeted Written on Skin since its first performance at the 2012 Aix-en-Provence Festival.
Guilt trip
Part of what makes opera seem, at least, a camp art form is that fans of the genre have such inconsistent taste.
But the Levy was dry
The redevelopment that took place at Lincoln Center during Reynold Levy’s tenure as president of Lincoln Center represents a considerable accomplishment.
The Night They Raided Rimsky’s
Opera-lovers who attend too much modern opera may find that it feels like duty.
Platée du jour
What must have raced through the mind of the none-too-comely Spanish Infanta when she learned that the opera to be performed during the celebrations for her 1745 wedding to the French Dauphin revolved around the comeuppance of an ugly yet vain water nymph tricked into believing Jupiter was her ardent suitor?
Get happy
Lincoln Center hosted two milestones this week.
Lockdown
UPDATE: Philip Glass emerged from the Met tonight to read to the General Assembly (via mic check) the final lines from Satyagraha: “When righteousness/ Withers away/ And evil / Rules the Land /We come into being /Age after age/ And take visible shape /And move / A man among men/ For the protection/ Of good […]
“Spartans, tonight we dine at Picholine!”
“Greek night at opera canceled due to conflict” [Indiana Daily Student]
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).
Win a Free Ticket to Opening Night at the Met!
Quinn Kelsey and Lise Davidsen star in the Met's new Macbeth. We're giving away one ticket, so screw your courage to the sticking place and enter now!
