The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

Thanksgiving is a lovely idea for a holiday, but it seems more and more crushed between Halloween, the increasingly prominent freak-out part...

I’ve just heard that the much-ballyhooed Met at the movies thing for the Bay Area will be happening in that hotbed of the musical-dramatic a...

Amazon is reporting that Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson's recording of her husband's Neruda Songs (Boston Symphony performance) is being re...

When I started blogging, I vowed I would never apologize for any delays in posting, since there’s no end to that sort of thing. Every evenin...

(jumping the queue to discuss the San Francisco Tristan. . . . ) There’s quite a difference in going to Tristan after a full week of work an...

Ah, Tristan, the opera that ruined my life. . . . (“Do you want to go out for coffee?” “Well . . . is this going to end in an ecstatic love-...

I’ve been out greeting as liberators the Democratic Party. Please, take more flowers and candy from a grateful nation! Well, that’s assuming...

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...