The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

I've added John from uTopianTurtleTop and Rebecca from Music, Mayhem, and Miscellaneous to the blogroll, just for leaving comments. I wa...

My last show in DC was Jenufa at the National Opera, with Patricia Racette in the title role and Catherine Malfitano as the Kostelnicka, and...

Let me just say I was way ahead of the curve on Titus Andronicus: I’ve had a soft spot in my heart for it since I first started reading Shak...

With the exceptions of Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream and Verdi’s Falstaff, I find most Shakespeare-based operas disappointing, though al...

There were a few other disappointments on the Pittsburgh trip besides Nathan Gunn’s cancelled performances: first, despite the Internet-sear...

Actual dialogue overheard in the lower lobby of the Pittsburgh Opera House during a Billy Budd intermission: Wife: What was that other Billy...

I had hoped to post a few more times before I continue my Nathan Gunn Tour of America by going to Pittsburgh, but the lingering headcold (or...

Another delightful aftereffect of my trip to LA showed up about a day after my last post – the hacking cougher on the plane seems to have gi...

There was so much weirdness packed into my short trip to LA that I’ll have to get to Tristan in a later entry. I arrived late Monday morning...

In honor of the great man’s birth on the banks of the Avon 443 years ago, I’d like to report that a friend of mine recently told me that if ...