The Met recently submitted another eye-roll inducing entry for the Woke Olympics with their Women’s History Month slate.
Suddenly in the middle of March 2019 the Metropolitan Opera realized that perhaps a few of the company’s multitudes of stagehands and technicians might be of the feminine persuasion.
Barihunk John Chest headlines San Francisco Opera’s Billy Budd in the fall of 2019.
Scribe/saxophonist Will Robin (not pictured) surveys some of the many women who are making opera these days.
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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.
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.
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