The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

Happy Halloween. I see the disadvantages of the holiday; as my oldest sister once said, “Why don’t we have a day when people don’t dress up...

My favorite production as a production at the Bayreuth festival was oddly enough the opera I was least excited about seeing, Der Fliegende H...

I have actually managed to figure out how to post links. Yes, I know most people set those up the first day. Minimalist or moron? Luddite or...

I try to avoid posting in language that would, as they used to say, bring a blush to the cheek of modesty, but I realized this morning that ...

This is going to be long, but I find that so suitable for Parsifal. . . . Digression One: Mein lieber Schwan! My first viewing of Parsifal w...

I enjoyed my three and a half days (too brief) in Munich though I didn't see it at its best (nor, I suppose, did it see me at my best) -...

In the crush and rush to leave after the previous evening's Gotterdammerung, I ended up leaving Bayreuth on the 10:00 a.m. to Nuremburg,...

On November 14, the Peter Sellars production of Giulio Cesare is finally being released on DVD. The cast includes his usual troupe at the ti...

Recently I added to my Amazon wishlist the forthcoming DVD of Hamlet (Russian version, with translation by Pasternak and music by Shostakovi...

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