Posts by Gerald Malone
Friday, 12 April 2019
The Met's La Traviata is a thrilling riposte to Regietheater opera
It’s been a nightmare getting around New York this week. A measles scare, because anti-vaccine fundamentalists refused to be needled..
By Gerald Malone
Friday, 29 March 2019
Opera review: the bad guys win in Monteverdi's L’incoronazione di Poppea
The gleaming white building – a giant beached whale of a building, perched on a glittering lake shore, pointing eastward..
By Gerald Malone
Friday, 22 March 2019
Verdi's Rigoletto is the cruellest opera
“Rigoletto is the cruellest opera, breeding Tragedy out of dead minds, mixing Amorality and desire, stirring Numbed moral sense with..
By Gerald Malone
Friday, 1 March 2019
Verdi's Falstaff proves he could write comic opera
Falstaff is Giuseppe’s Verdi’s last, sizzling “hurrah”; a mould-breaking “hurrah” at that. Almost eighty when he wrote it in 1893,..
By Gerald Malone
Friday, 22 February 2019
Preview: Grand innovation at the Metropolitan Opera
The decorations are stashed. The last of the turkey has just crawled into the bin. No resolutions survive. And here’s..
By Gerald Malone
Friday, 22 February 2019
Woy Jenkins, the Hillhead by-election and why frit Tiggers are scared of the voters
A new breakaway party is set to sweep the country. It’s based on a core of disaffected Labour MPs and..
By Gerald Malone
Friday, 15 February 2019
Hilma af Klint - the forgotten visionary who gave us abstract expressionism
“I’m off to see the Klint exhibition at the Guggenheim”. “No, no, you mean the Klimt, surely! It’s at the..
By Gerald Malone
Friday, 8 February 2019
Opera review - Francesco Cilea's 'Adriana Lecouvreur' is an unexpected jewel
Adriana Lecouvreur is an opera sneered at by cognoscenti. It’s by Italian composer Francesco Cilea, 1866 – 1950, who “composed..
By Gerald Malone
Wednesday, 6 February 2019
God Bless Middle America
The 2020 US presidential election likely will be a rerun of the divisive battle between two Americas – “sophisticated” coastal..
By Gerald Malone