Put your hands together for Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who has been named Musical America‘s Artist of the Year.
“But enough about Lou Tellegen,” Miss Farrar snapped.
Our old friend Heather Mac Donald (not pictured) is back, ostensibly to mourn the loss of ‘Petrarchan intimacy with the past’ in the study of the humanities, but, reliably enough, she can’t help taking a swipe at Regietheater while she’s at it.
Our Own JJ weighs in at some length about OONY’s performance of I Lombardi over at musicalamerica.com.
Our Own JJ‘s nominee for 2012 Newsmaker of the Year: the Met’s Peter Gelb.
Our Own JJ (not pictured) is delighted and humbled—well, delighted anyway…
“Since no opera company in the U.S. has quite got up the courage to present a Herheim production, this webcast offers us a chance to sample this director’s unique style of Regie.”