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An Interview With Matthew Polenzani
Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking over Zoom with the splendid tenor Matthew Polenzani about operatic characters, his happiest memories as a performer, the Chicago Cubs, fatherhood, and more!
Met Opera 2022-23 Review: Lohengrin
Wagner’s nearly 5-hour medieval romance Lohengrin was next in my weekend marathon. Piotr Beczała, Christine Goerke, and Elena Stikhina made the time fly by.
An Interview With Željko Lučić
“To maintain our spectators we have to offer quality, and only so we could hope that the young people will come to listen to us.”
Quality — that’s Željko, night after night.
Met Opera 2022-23 Review: Falstaff
The Met’s second revival of Robert Carsen’s production of the delicious comedy Falstaff was mild and completely delightful, one of the finest comedies I’ve seen. Who better than Verdi to make a tour de force out of Shakespeare’s immortal Sir John Falstaff?
Spotlight: Rachmaninoff’s “Ne poy, krasavitsa”
‘‘Do not sing, beautiful girl, before me,’ the singer of Rachmaninoff’s poignant ‘Ne poy, krasavitsa, pri mne’ begins, pleading to an unnamed, invisible, and silent…
My Night at the Opera: Ariadne auf Naxos
It was the perfect re-introduction to the joys of live opera.
Sensational. Spectacular. Otherworldly.
I’ve never heard anyone like Lise Davidsen before, and know I never will.
