BOHEMIAN LEGS, OPERA-WISE
WHILE LISTENING to the Metropolitan Opera’s Mary Jo Heath commentate on Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème, I got to thinking about operatic legs. Today an operatic mainstay, this tale of bohemian life … Continue reading
May 14, 2016 · Leave a comment
ROBERT MERRILL: BARITONE AND MAN OF LETTERS
BARITONE ROBERT Merrill must have been a hoot as well as a Metropolitan Opera stalwart from 1945 to 1976. Well, there was the time in 1951 when the Met’s high-toned … Continue reading
June 10, 2015 · Leave a comment
OPERATIC CHAOS
IT HAS been a while since I’ve had fun here with opera. Having already cited (see http://www.wp.me/p2ETap-u7) what Sir Peter Ustinov called opera’s “razor edge of absurdity,” it seems not … Continue reading
April 20, 2013 · Leave a comment
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