I’m a Toddler
One year ago today, I wrote my first Feast of Music entry, about a concert I’d heard the night before […]
Opera
Neighborhood Opera
The idea of putting on amateur opera in New York seems, at first, a fool’s game, what with two of
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Nuclear Opera
Last night, I heard John Adams' Doctor Atomic at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the experience was as searing
Must Have Mortier
For those looking for a little taste of what to look forward to with the arrival of Gerard Mortier as
An American Tragedy
I only made it to City Opera in time for the second act of last night’s performance of Margaret Garner,
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A Berskshires Marathon – Part II
I was back at Tanglewood less than twelve hours after I’d left Friday night, just in time to catch the
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Disturbing News
According to Dan Wakin in today’s Times, tenor Jerry Hadley, who has suffered from depression and financial troubles for several
Rewind x2
It’s been 38 years since Richie Havens opened the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, with a rousing three hour set
The People’s Diva
Word just in that Beverly Sills, the soprano from Crown Heights who enjoyed an illustrious career on the world’s great