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Friday, 14 June 2019
A new work by American composer, David Lang, is always an important event. He self describes as a passionate, prolific …
Continue reading "David Lang – opera’s rebel without a cause"
By Gerald Malone
Friday, 7 June 2019
Charleston is a whizz of a town. This is my third visit for the annual Spoleto Festival. I stay in …
Continue reading "Southern opera festival marred by massacre of Strauss"
Thursday, 6 June 2019
The President of the United States has swapped swamps. Goodbye DC. Hello, Whitehall, Buckingham Palace, Normandy, complete with cheers, taunts, …
Continue reading "Self-obsessed Democrats will struggle to defeat incumbent Trump"
Friday, 31 May 2019
It’s not far, as the crow flies, from the Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, Manhattan Midtown, to The Flea Theater, …
Continue reading "Unearthing a Manhattan opera jewel to rival the Met"
Friday, 17 May 2019
James K. Polk, President USA, 1845 – 1849. The name caught my eye because – ignoramus – I had never …
Continue reading "Sarah Childress Polk – America’s first First Lady"
Friday, 10 May 2019
“Hojotoho heiaha!” It’s the Met’s Wagner Ring Cycle. In 2010, Peter Gelb, controversial managing director of Metropolitan Opera appointed in …
Continue reading "From Wagner sceptic to convert – how I learned to love the Ring Cycle"
Friday, 3 May 2019
“Are you prepared to slay a mighty dragon, rescue a fair young maid from a harem, bake an Italian cake …
Continue reading "There’s nothing quite like the Wexford opera festival"
Friday, 12 April 2019
It’s been a nightmare getting around New York this week. A measles scare, because anti-vaccine fundamentalists refused to be needled …
Continue reading "The Met’s La Traviata is a thrilling riposte to Regietheater opera"
Friday, 29 March 2019
The gleaming white building – a giant beached whale of a building, perched on a glittering lake shore, pointing eastward …
Continue reading "Opera review: the bad guys win in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea"
