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Renée Fleming’s Long Goodbye

Renée Fleming’s Long Goodbye

Entre le coucher de soleil et le clair de lune, les feux d’artifice nous appellent encore. There is something tragic about the decline of a great operatic voice. It’s a tragedy that encompasses all the smaller tragedies of decline – including our own individually...

Coming Down From Machu Picchu – or – the Afterglow

Coming Down From Machu Picchu – or – the Afterglow

So I was on the phone with my pal Mary the other day and we were talking about how, between our respective work deadlines and obligations, and taking care of our quadruped loved ones, we essentially never went out anymore. “I mean it’s not as if we’ll ever catch up on...

Strangers On A Train – The Abduction From the Seraglio

Strangers On A Train – The Abduction From the Seraglio

The Los Angeles Opera’s co-production of Mozart’s The Abduction From the Seraglio (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), which closed February 19th, updated the action of this singspiel from its original mid- to late-18th century Ottoman Turkish setting, when the Ottoman...

Figaro “Unbound”—but undocumented:  ¡Figaro! (90210)

Figaro “Unbound”—but undocumented: ¡Figaro! (90210)

It’s been said that The Marriage of Figaro (or, more precisely, The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro, as it was originally titled) was one of the first nails in the coffin of the ancien régime.  Its author, the playwright, musician, watch-maker (and inventor),...

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