Hitting print too late to be included in Sunday’s roundup of other critics’ opinions of the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis season just ended was Heidi Waleson’s review for The Wall Street Journal.

Published in the weekend edition of July…

…and you helped.

Soprano Christine Brewer is based in the St. Louis area, but she does a lot of singing in Great Britain. She was among the nominees for the “BBC Listeners’ Award 2008″ this year — and she won.…

When I was a girl in the Kansas City suburb of Prairie Village, Kansas, we studied state history while tiptoeing lightly around two of the most interesting characters: Carrie Nation and John Brown.

Nation, who took her tomahawk into saloons…

No, tenor Juan Diego Florez didn’t do an encore to “Ah, mes amis,” despite a long and lusty accolade from the beyond-appreciative crowd. But he did just about everything else in a manner calculated to please the far-flung audiences of…

Today’s Wall Street Journal has a page-one feature on an endangered species: the prompter. Prompters help to save singers’ musical lives, by being on the spot with musical cues and words where needed. But opera houses are using fewer of…

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Is there too much high-def opera available in movie houses now? Well, not as far as the Met’s concerned, at any rate: Next year’s season will expand the number of transmissions (to 11, up from eight), the number of…

The Wagnerites turned out in force at the Art Museum on Saturday for “Tristan und Isolde,” live from the Met in HD broadcast. It starred soprano Deborah Voigt and tenor Robert Dean Smith – her fourth Tristan in as many…

To the Met, La Scala and San Francisco, add yet another convert to the HD broadcast faith: The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

The ROH has announced that it will broad four (prerecorded, a la La Scala and the SFO)…

Recital cancelled

Soprano Victoria Carmichael was to have performed a recital for the Artist Presentation Society this Sunday (March 9) at 3:00 pm at Unity Christ Church in St. Louis. She’s had to cancel: she has developed some trouble with…

The next wave of high-definition opera broadcasts hits cinemas this month, with four prerecorded productions from the San Francisco Opera arriving on several Wehrenburg screens here in March and April, and Metropolitan Opera stepping up its live presence at its…