Quote of the Day
It comes in today’s New York Times from former University of Colorado Fullback Keith Miller on getting off the sidelines and onto the opera stage: “I was still a jock at the time,” he’s quoted as...
View ArticleThe Reviews are IN! Part One
Yes, it was one heck of a performance on Friday night and an atmosphere that was positively electric! However, I won’t tarry: Let’s see what the critics had to say before jumping into the fray with...
View ArticleGood Dane, Great Opportunity
A few seasons back, we had an assistant conductor who was championing a rarely seen 19th century work by Ambroise Thomas, “Hamlet,” and who completely convinced me of the need to see it revived and...
View ArticleFalling Through the Slatkins
I remember a few years back, being shocked to see a top prize winner walk onstage with a score to a very simple piece by Mozart -- and proceed to use it throughout his piano recital. Evidently,...
View ArticleToo Much Dough, or Just Enough?
Op-Ed contributor Alex Ross in yesterday’s “New York Times” tackles the perception of the high cost of producing opera in tough times -- even as the Met prepares to unveil the first part of its...
View ArticleA Day in the Life
There are looks “behind-the-scenes” and then there’s going really, REALLY behind-the-scenes, as in this fluffy little operatic breakfast omelet from “The New York Times.” It’s a no-calorie read....
View ArticleCostello Triumphs (Again) at the Met
Tony Tommasini was favorably impressed. With Anna Netrebko as the doomed Ann Boleyn but also with Stephen Costello, reprising the role he sang so beautifully with the Dallas Opera last season: “The...
View ArticleBack at the Helm
As Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s “Moby-Dick” gets ready to reconquer North America after dazzling audiences “Down Under”…a curious round of cast changes from one coast to the other has put heldentenor...
View ArticleThe Perils of Opera
First the good news: mezzo-soprano Wendy White was not seriously injured in her onstage tumble from a raised platform during Act III of Gounod’s “Faust.” Now, the rest of the horrifying story from “The...
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