Alban Berg’s compact yet potent oeuvre has long played an outsized role in shaping my understanding of music’s aesthetic evolution.
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Highlights of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2019-2020 season, according the always intriguing Met Future Wiki.
By La Cieca
After five flops in a row, Mr. McVicar continues to win new assignments from the Met.
By La Cieca
Unlike my friend Greg Freed, who entertainingly wrote of his ambivalence about seeing Il trovatore in a movie theater this season, I have embraced the Met Live in HD transmissions as a part of the modern operagoing experience.
By Porgy Amor
Lilith. Pandora. Circe. Salome. “La Belle Dame sans Merci.” Carmen. Brigid O’Shaughnessy: the eternal “femme fatale” still fascinates us.
