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• Damrau, Thielemann, Strauss: Poesie

  My expectations of Diana Damrau's most recent recital disc were stratospherically high. Damrau is a singer whose technique and musical intelligence I admire, an... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Dov'è Eravamo? September Miscellany

  September is upon us, Gentle Readers, and with it the return of additional academic responsibilities. This autumn will be the second half of my preparation... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Mistress, Queen, Romantic Heroine: The Many Roles of Anne Boleyn

  

  Anne Boleyn: 16th century portrait Anne Boleyn has proved as fascinating to posterity as she was to Henry VIII. Scholars and dilettantes, poets and painters,... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Mozart's Sister: Sharing a Room with Genius

  

  Based on the above trailer, I suspected that René Féret's film "Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart" (U.S. release under the title "Mozart's Sister,") might be a bit... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Getting to Glimmerglass: Notes and Photos

  

  The first thing I noticed about the Glimmerglass Festival, I noticed sometime before getting there: it's in the middle of nowhere. Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Medea, Aspra Ben Tu Punisci

  

  Medea, Euripides' brilliant, brutal drama, has been adapted as an opera more than once, and no wonder. Here's the plot: Medea is a sorceress, of royal and divin... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Tosca: La Cosa Bramata Perseguo

  

  Il convegno: Hempstead House The Tosca I attended on Saturday evening was the first performance in the North Shore Music Festival's inaugural season. I enjoyed... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Mozart, Beyond: "Jupiter" and Vesperae Solennes De Confessore

  

  Iván Fischer, in a recent interview, offered the following paradoxical definition of Mozart's work: that it lies beyond categorization. This might seem closer t... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Don Giovanni

  

  The man, the myth, the opera: approaching Don Giovanni is no easy task.  But "approach" is too timid a verb for what the Budapest Festival Orchestra... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Reading List: Butterfly's Child

  

  The opera is Cio-Cio-San's. I for one don't care what happens to [insert choice epithet] Pinkerton. But there remains the boy: "Tu, tu, piccolo iddio! Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Selma Jezková: Royal Danish Opera in NYC

  

  Photograph (c) Miklos SzaboPoul Ruders' 2010 opera, Selma Jezková, had its U.S. premiere on Friday; its single New York performance occurred as part of the... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• From the Met Archives: Elektra

  I'm hoping to get my hands on the DVDs of recent Elektra productions, but this one is at least recently released: included in the Levine anniversary set from th... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Treuloser Holder! Konwitschny's Tristan on DVD

  I have not forgotten your collective request for opera DVD posts, Gentle Readers! Now, I do realize that reviews of recent DVD releases are more likely to be... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Bruckner and Adams: Matters of Life, Death, and Art with the Cleveland Symphony

  To begin this post, a confession: I usually feel that in the symphonic repertoire, a little late Romanticism goes a long way, and sometimes have sighed over... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Salut à La France!

  Constructing national identities is a messy business, but tackling political injustice is always worth celebrating. Natalie Dessay is, I believe, also always... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Magic Fresh and Familiar: Peter Brook's "A Magic Flute" Comes to Lincoln Center

  

  Thanks to the availability of student tickets for Lincoln Center's summer festival events, I was able to treat myself to Peter Brook's luminous production of... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Reading List: Literary Fantasias

  I read Mawrdew Czgowchwz on a beach, and chuckled through it happily. It's a linguistically exuberant, insouciantly implausible fable in which the outsider is... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Passione: Una Avventura Musicale

  New York City being squally this weekend, I decided to explore Naples via John Turturro's film on Neapolitan musical culture, "Passione. Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Pop, Opera, and Palm Trees: New York City Opera and Rufus Wainwright on the...

  

  It was New York City Opera's Twitter feed that alerted me to their Tuesday evening concert, part of this year's River to River Festival. Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Midsummer: Make Music New York

  

  As the summer solstice approched, I was inwardly lamenting that New York didn't have anything like Paris' annual Fête de la Musique. Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA