The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

My season of three Tristans: Bayreuth, 21 August 2006 San Francisco Opera, 27 October 2006 Los Angeles Philharmonic, 24 April 2007

After several recent conversations about SF Opera and then after reading the blogosphere reviews of the Met's opening production, I gues...

A week from today (that would be September 26) two CDs are being released of particular interest. I haven't been this hyped up about pre...

Ahoy, mates -- for any lubbers who know not this be Talk Like a Pirate Day, here be the link: http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html...

I walked around most of this afternoon. I went through the nearby mall. As with many things here it looks similar to such things in America,...

The protocol for curtain calls seems to be that if you want to boo the production, you do so as soon as the dark (green or charcoal gray? it...

Today is an off day before Gotterdammerung. Just as I know that before any trip I'll spend weeks wondering why I thought it was a good i...

for Anna Clementina on her 85th birthday: wish I could be there with you today long may your travels continue

The other day I was asked if I were South African, which is a new one on me. The gentleman who asked thought he had seen me in his group or ...

Near the train station there is a store that posts in its windows photographs of the Festival crowd. They are taken from the balcony where t...