The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

When I wrote ( here ) about last June's San Francisco Opera production of Show Boat , I ended with the hope that it would be released a...

Kenneth Branagh's film of The Magic Flute was made in 2006 but is only now being released in the United States. I have no idea why ther...

Going to concerts doesn’t leave much time for writing about them. It's been a busy time and I have quite a little backlog built up. Abou...

The San Francisco Opera season is well underway, but the one genuinely exciting, do-not-miss production is coming up in a few weeks: Karita...

At least two of Los Angeles Opera's recent productions from their exciting Recovered Voices series, which features composers silenced by...

I recently saw two films from the 1930s, one of which I had wanted to see for a long time and the other of which I had never heard of until ...

I have mixed feelings about attending livecasts (to me, they have the disadvantages of live performance -- rigid start times, sitting cramme...

These are the doldrums months for theater, and as such perhaps a bit of a relief, though there’s always something tempting: Here’s some long...

I obviously should have added Rod Gilfry to the list of baritones of whom I did not have "shirtless/naked" pics, because just days...

And here’s a special St Valentine’s Day half-price heart-shaped box of links for my readers, starting with some hilarity from the Onion. I h...

I see that Opus Arte lists among its August releases a two-disc set of the Netherlands Opera production of Dr Atomic. It's not yet liste...

A couple of years ago I was re-watching Griffith's Intolerance and there was a close-up of some chickens, and I thought, "Wow. Thos...

I’d probably be pretty traumatized and depressed if someone told me how much time I’ve lost in my life to allergies, colds, and other nose-s...

It sure was swell of the Senate to intervene so Tom Brady and I could spend this Saturday night together. (Here’s the score so far: giving t...

I normally avoid movie theaters, finding a big-screen TV and Netflix preferable to the ordeal that movie-going has become, but I was given p...