NEW YORK - There is a popular misconception that opera always involves heavy-duty stories and emotions, that it’s always serious, that someone — or several someones — must always perish by the end.
Not so.
As Exhibit A, consider Donizetti’s sweet, tuneful,…
The Metropolitan Opera’s production of Gaetano Donizetti’s bel canto classic Lucia di Lammermoor, seen in high-definition broadcast at the St. Louis Art Museum on Saturday afternoon, offered a made-for-HD quartet of lead singers, a handsome, mostly well-thought-out production, and an…
Here’s the SLSO’s official announcement of the 2009-2010 season:
SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ANNOUNCES 2009-2010 SEASON
St. Louis (February 10, 2009)—The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO) announces its 2009-10 season: the orchestra’s 130th since its founding in 1880, and fifth under Music…
With Kurt Warner once again leading a team to the Super Bowl, perhaps it’s time to revive my middle-Verdi opera, “Gli Arieti.”
When the Rams first went to the Superbowl, the then-editor of A&E, Ray Rinaldi, told each of us to…
CHICAGO - The management at Lyric Opera of Chicago has been trying to put on George Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” for at least the last quarter century. It’s a hard one to pull off, because the Gershwin estate requires an…
