Either venomous fishwife Norman Lebrecht has deliberately misquoted and misinterpreted what Jonas Kaufmann said in a recent interview, or else Jonas Kaufmann needs to go fuck himself.
Remember the disastrous 2010 Traviata at the Met, “conducted” by Leonard Slatkin?
Following the jump, the latest kvetch from joyless Norman Lebrecht.
Venomous Fishwife Norman Lebrecht now doesn’t know the difference between Anton Chekhov and Konstantin Stanislavsky.
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.
