Opera

Round 2

Die Walküre, Metropolitan Opera, 4/11/09

"Life is travel and change. Such pleasures I cannot give up." (Wotan, Das Rheingold, Scene 2) I don't get chills

Five years ago, my friend Pat and I paid $140 each for the privilege of seeing Wagner's Ring at the

Singspiel ("Song-play") – a style of opera that combines music with spoken text – has been around for nearly three centuries.

It's not the happiest of times in the rarefied world of big-time music, as these recent announcements can attest. Ticket

The East Village Opera Company, which amplifies traditional arias with rock instrumentation, brought their act to the Joyce Theater last night

Ah, it's good to end this year of some serious ups and downs with a laugh: dismayed by the recent

I need to finish my holiday shopping and get ready for my trip to Ireland next week, so here –

When I saw Seiji Ozawa up in Boston a couple of weeks ago, he conducted lengthy works by Messiaen and