“Rachvelishvili sang Carmen, the role of her 2009 breakthrough, hundreds of times, and was scheduled to ring in 2024 as Bizet’s classic antiheroine in the splashy premiere of a new production at the Met.”
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Zachary Woolfe reflects on the legacy of parterre box founder James Jorden and three decades of “remembering when opera was queer and dangerous and exciting and making it that way again”
Zack Woolfe of The New York Times remembers James Jorden
New York Times Classical Music Editor Zachary Woolfe (pictured) joins #KikiKonversations with Karen Slack.
By La Cieca
On the day of the Super Bowl, I attended a near-sold-out screening of the Paris Opéra’s recent production of Rameau’s 1735 opéra-ballet Les Indes galantes at New York’s Alliance Française.
Robert Lepage promises a more “urban” take on the work.
By La Cieca
“Can the Diva Who Once Ruled the Met Make a Comeback?”
By La Cieca
Now, you would think nothing could please gaycentric La Cieca more than yesterday’s New York Times profile of the Met’s new music director…
By La Cieca
“I think that if it’s not [Bernstein’s] worst, it surely reflects his worst tendencies…”
By La Cieca
“Mr. Luisi won praise replacing Mr. Levine time after time, particularly in a costly version of Wagner’s Ring cycle—though, perhaps in a sign of the situation’s delicacy, the two conductors have never met in person.”
By La Cieca
“Few operas better represent a moment such as ours, when stability and long-held certainties are hard to come by, particularly in regard to sexuality.”
By La Cieca
Longtime Friend of the Box Zachary Woolfe (left) climbs onto the masthead of the New York Times as their new classical music editor, starting Monday.
By La Cieca
Javier Camerena, “as close to a rock star as the Met has produced from its male roster this season,” has big plans with the company, with at least four roles planned for future seasons.
By La Cieca
To celebrate the birthday of Renata Tebaldi, our friends at Opera Depot are offering a free download of live performances by this great diva.
By La Cieca
“But like any production left out in the sun a few decades, it gradually faded into mere decoration.”
By La Cieca
The much-anticipated Stefan Herheim production of Les Vêpres Siciliennes opened last night at the Royal Opera, and the New York Times‘ Zachary Woolfe was something less than completely bowled over.
By La Cieca
Onegin, which opens the Met’s season on Monday, has taken an unusually precipitous tumble…
By La Cieca
Our Own JJ debuts in the pages of the New York Observer.
By La Cieca
And then she was all like, “Nuh-uh! Igor was so not gay,” and I was all like…
By La Cieca
Longtime Friend of the Box Zachary Woolfe (pictured) sits down with Marc Scorca of Opera America for a “Conversation about Opera in America,” implausibly enough.
By La Cieca
“I’m analytical, not wild,” Ms. Garanca told an interviewer in 2009.
By La Cieca
