New Director at City Opera
For those who haven’t already heard, City Opera announced this week that Gerard Mortier, the current director of the Opera National de Paris, has been named the next General Manager […]
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The Met Rocks
After performances like today’s Onegin at the Met (which I heard on 96.3FM) I almost feel I should retract my last post (almost). Renée Fleming, Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Ramón Vargas
City Opera Gets It Right
As a marketing guy, one thing I hear a lot from clients is the need for good Customer Relationship Management – or CRM for short. The concept can be summarized
Gergiev @ NYCB Tonight
Valery Gergiev, the globetrotting conductor best known as the director of the Kirov Opera and Ballet and the Principal Guest Conductor of the Met Opera, is conducting tonight’s performance at
Simon Boccangera Online Tonight
At the risk of contradicting myself (see yesterday’s post), you can listen to the live Met season premiere of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra online tonight at 7:30. This is one of
Jenufa Live Now
The Met’s final performance of Jenufa is being broadcast right now. You can listen to it locally at 96.3FM, or online. I saw it last Tuesday, and I can only
Cheap Seats
This morning, a former co-worker in her early 20’s wrote me to say that she "hasn’t really had the chance" to attend classical music concerts since leaving college, where she