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• Gloire à Ce Roi Charmant: Le Roi Malgré Lui

  

  Le Roi Malgré Lui, Emmanuel Chabrier's 1887 opera, is a curious work; admired for its creative orchestration by Ravel, Stravinsky, and others, it has nonetheles... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Le Coeur De Vivre, L'esprit Dans Les Étoiles: Saariaho's Émilie

  

  The life of Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet--philosopher, physicist, musician and linguist, mother, wife, gambler,... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Reading List: The Wagner Clan

  Jonathan Carr's The Wagner Clan is a readable page-turner exploring the extravagant, sometimes unsavory, always larger-than-life history of the descendants of... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Erst Kommt Das Fressen, Dann Kommt Die Moral

  

  G.W. Pabst's 1931 film "Die Dreigroschenoper" left both Brecht and Weill dissatisfied: the material of the 1928 work which so impressed Pabst is rearranged,... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Tchaikovsky, Trpčeski, and the NYPhil

  Had it not been for the prospect of hearing Simon Trpčeski play Tchaikovsky's second piano concerto, I might have given the Philharmonic's last "summertime... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• New American Art Song

  If you're looking for something creative and non-jingoistic for festive listening this July 4th, Daniel Okulitch's album of American art song fits the bill. Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• L'heure Exquise: French Art Song on CD

  

  Mucha, "Music" After several days of cooler temperatures, New York City is poised to plunge back into baking, exultant heat. Much as I love the summertime, ther... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Season's End: Mozartean Joie De Vivre with the NYPhil

  

  The New York Philharmonic seems to have taken as a truth universally acknowledged that you really can't top Mozart, and their season finale concerts are... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Un Impegno Nuziale: Christoph Marthaler's Nozze

  

  Christoph Marthaler's production of Mozart's Nozze di Figaro was filmed in 2006 at the Opera National de Paris (although it was originally created for Salzburg... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Nuits Et Jours D'été: Summer Schedule Survey

  Well, Gentle Readers, it is mid-June, and nary an estival festival do I have to show for it. I have danced at my first wedding of the summer, and am... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Totus Ardeo: De Falla and Orff with the NYPhil

  

  Atlantis, as pictured by Athanasius Kircher in "Mundi Subterranei," 1669This evening marks the first in a series of three performances of an... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Reading List: The Metropolis Case

  

  As promised by the title, Matthew Gallaway's novel is an elaborately allusive one, drawing on art and architecture, science and philosophy, politics and history... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Salome: Man Könnte Meinen, Sie Tanzt

  

  "Salome with the Head of John the Baptist" Aubrey Beardsley Richard Strauss' masterpiece of desire dangerously thwarted, and still more dangerously indulged, wa... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Life, Death, and What Comes After at Opera Manhattan

  

  Kala Maxym (c) Opera Manhattan Opera Manhattan's spring festival packs an emotional punch, or rather three. The triple bill features short twentieth-century... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Opera in Film: The Man Between

  

  It's film noir weather in NYC, and with Fr. M. Owen Lee's Opera Quiz Book as my guide, I discovered "The Man Between," directed by Carol Reed of... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Věc Makropulos

  

  The plot of Janáček's Makropulos Case is driven by intrigues legal, historical, and--not least--sexual. The Met's current revival of the 1926 opera is powered b... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Billy Budd: Farewell, Old Rights o' Man

  

  Photo (c) Ken Howard/Metropolitan OperaLast night's Billy Budd was one of the stronger all-around efforts I've seen recently at the Met. John Dexter's productio... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Goerne and Andsnes: Death (and Life) at Carnegie Hall

  

  To be perfectly frank, Gentle Readers, I went into Matthias Goerne's Tuesday night recital with some doubts as to how a program constructed using selections fro... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Die Walküre: Der Gottheit Nichtigen Glanz

  

  I am becoming a Walküre completist. With my mother, I attended Saturday's matinee at the Met, but will make this a brief report. Let me pass over the Lepage... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Il Destin Così Defrauda Le Speranze De' Mortali

  Last night I attended the first performance in the New York Opera Exchange's run of Così fan tutte. Their production, directed by Cameron Marcotte, not only use... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA