Posts by Gerald Malone
Friday, 28 September 2018
This year's Met Opera Ring Cycle must stay true to Wagner's mighty vision
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By Gerald Malone
Friday, 31 August 2018
Take a trip to Wexford, Ireland’s unlikely opera Mecca
“Wexford (Irish: Loch Garman) is the county town of County Wexford, Ireland. Wexford, an agricultural trading centre, lies on the south side..
By Gerald Malone
Friday, 22 June 2018
Theatre Review: The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart at Spoleto Festival
“And I would walk 500 miles” boasted The Proclaimers, Scotland’s pro-independence hard nut, Celtic-rock-stomping Reid twins of the late 80’s...
By Gerald Malone
Friday, 11 May 2018
Impressionist opera: a review of Massenet's Cendrillon at the Met
New York Metropolitan Opera’s first time production of Massenet’s Cendrillon (“Cinderella” for those of us more familiar with the brothers..
By Gerald Malone
Monday, 18 December 2017
Reaction review: Girls of the Golden West go critical
John Adams’ new oeuvre, Girls of the Golden West does for California romantic gold rush mythology what his earlier opera,..
By Gerald Malone
Friday, 21 July 2017
“Doin' the Charleston” – opera at the Spoleto Festival
“Man, I’m tellin’ you, it’s a lapazoo”! Come on, you remember, lyrics from “The Charleston”, that flapper dance number named..
By Gerald Malone
Monday, 15 May 2017
Review: "Don't Walk Away Renée Fleming"
And then, she was gone. Renée Fleming had taken her final curtain call at the Met, a career of thirty..
By Gerald Malone
Saturday, 18 February 2017
“Alternative Facts” of American Opera
Two nights in a row at the Metropolitan Opera in New York is as self indulgent as ordering a Sundae..
By Gerald Malone
Tuesday, 29 November 2016
The tale of the Cuban health minister: recycled bandages and a Toyota hire car
The Cuban Health Minister who, until then, had confined herself to boring “blah blah” statistics, suddenly said something arresting: “So,..
By Gerald Malone