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• An Adventurous Vixen at the NYPhil

  "My music remains young through contact with the eternally young rhythm of nature." --JanáčekTo be honest, I found the scope and hyperbole of the... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Reading List: Christa Ludwig's Memoirs

  

  "So what you need is a complete harmony of your technique of movement on stage, and the expression of your interpretation, with the music, and with the pure... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Modernism, Morbidity, and Eroticism with the NYPhil and Deborah Voigt

  

  Arnold Böcklin, Der Toteninsel (New York version, 1880) The musicians of the NYPhil are back in town and, under the baton of David Robertson, were in excellent... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Stuttgart Ring: Götterdämmerung

  

  Is Götterdämmerung an intimate interpersonal drama? Yes, according to Peter Konwitschny... but also a parable about the perils of being too proud and preoccupie... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Stuttgart Ring: Siegfried

  

  The Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito production of Siegfried is, so far, the installment of the Stuttgart Ring I've liked best. Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Schauerlich Und Süß: Pierrot Lunaire & L'Histoire Du Soldat

  

  "What an amazing score! An orchestra of five musicians. Sounds appeared, which never were heard before. Sometimes it sounded like an orchestra of 100. Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Stuttgart Ring: Die Walküre

  

  After watching Christoph Nel's version of Walküre, I have concluded that I am musically spoiled by the Met. I even had a moment of weakness in which I wondered... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Stuttgart Ring: Rheingold

  

  Staatstheater Stuttgart I'm still making a list of opera DVDs with which to gratify your wishes, Gentle Readers. None of the libraries in my life have the... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Reading List: Mozart the Dramatist

  “Opera of all arts offers the opportunity of the most direct expression of emotions by the least naturalistic method.” “Mozart is charming—indeed, ravishing—up... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Support Your Local Orchestra! Or, In Which the Mahlerjahre Catch Up With Me

  I think I have been to more Mahler within the past twelvemonth than I had previously heard live, ever. There was a bone-shaking 8th Symphony with Gergiev and th... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Kate Royal: A Lesson in Love at Carnegie Hall

  I bought myself a ticket to Kate Royal's Carnegie Hall recital as an end-of-semester treat; not only was I not disappointed in my first hearing of her live,... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Mitridate, Rè Di Ponto

  

  Mozart's first opera seria, Mitridate, Rè di Ponto was first performed in 1770; according to Stanford University's OperaGlass, no revivals are known to have... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Sunday Special: Summer Schedule Survey

  Well, Gentle Readers, on the academic and opera-house calendars, summer is here. As a budding academic, I'm thrilled: three months to focus on my work! (Don't... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA