Comfort food
“In these few minutes we are given a précis of Leontyne Price as an artist.”
observer
The distance between us
“Dying in the third act is much more intense, as the sickness has the same symptoms as COVID-19, so suffocation, pain, agony, fever—all this must be present and real.”
Teen titans
Of the hundreds of opera performances Our Own JJ (not pictured) attended in the 2010s he narrows it down to the ten most glittering highlights.
A Bougie “Bohème”
After more than 35 years, I think I’ve finally figured out what’s wrong with the Metropolitan Opera’s perennial production of Puccini’s La Bohème.
A very Millo sequel
“Can the Diva Who Once Ruled the Met Make a Comeback?”
Side effects
“Her showboating performance on October 29, while certainly not lacking in spectacular moments, came as a sad disappointment after her ‘gripping and insightful’ Norma last season.”
The finale countdown
Our Own JJ catches up with the tail end of the Met season.
Panache room
“Roberto Alagna has found his most congenial and emotionally moving role yet: Cyrano de Bergerac.”
A quiet girl
“Tatiana has developed into one of Netrebko’s very best roles.”
Leading lady
“She not only sang the difficult leading role, she also directed the opera.”
Women beware women
Prototype: Opera/Theatre/Now presented new works in which women were variously gang-raped, eviscerated and executed by firing squad.
Stone soup
“A case of histronic personality disorder a deux.”
The young and the restless
“We want to figure out how to create a nationwide change in how people think opera can be done. \“
Same old, same old
“Just as every downtown shopping street in every major American city now features the same familiar retailers’ names, New York City Opera has no particular artistic identity different from, say, Opera Carolina.”
All fall down
La Cieca (pictured) asks, what are your eight (or even 10) can’t-miss opera events for the fall?
Two and only
Anna Netrebko and Latonia Moore (pictured) rekindle “The Grand Opera Buzz.”
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!
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).
