This was the kind of night that proves the haters right: sometimes opera is boring.
It’s that Maury D’Annato again! Â As La Cieca believes Katharine Hepburn once complimented Mae West, “Oh, you, you’re just so goddamned epigrammatic!” Whatever the reason, tonight’s date with Lorin Maazel was like five hours with a pretty girl sitting ON MY TRACHEA.
Tell us: What was the best of 2025?
Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
