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The Hours: A Follow-Up

December 16, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

Despite the Cyberattack at The Metropolitan Opera, There’s Even More to Think about with The Hours A week-end conversation with friends about last week’s post brought up a terrific idea. Let’s go with it. The topic had to do with some of my thoughts about Kevin Puts’s and Greg Pierce’s new opera, The Hours (just …

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Filed Under: Journal, Music, Personal History Tagged With: der rosenkavalier (opera), Metropolitan Opera Association, Pierce (Greg), Puts (Kevin), The Hours (opera)

A New American Classic from The Metropolitan Opera

December 6, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

The Hours: A New Spin on Just How Good American Opera Can Be For those of us who go often to the opera, we long ago learned that an evening at the Met brings much joy in the pure art of singing. Indeed, nowadays, here at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, a serious effort is being …

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Filed Under: Journal, Music, Personal History Tagged With: Cunningham (Michael), DiDonato (Joyce), Fleming (Renée), McDermott (Phelim), Nézet-Séguin (Yannick), O'Hara (Kelli), Pierce (Greg), Puts (Kevin), Woolf (Virginia)

Crossing Canada by Train (4)

October 19, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

Day Four (Saturday): On to Vancouver, With a Festive (And Very Personal) Final Evening Oddly enough, not much to write about as The Canadian rolled through British Columbia and made its way to Vancouver. At this point, the journey was not particularly visual, so no photographs. But we all had a good time talking and …

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Filed Under: Journal, Music, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Caro mio ben (song), Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, Giordani (Giuseppe), The Roadside Fire (song), Vaughan Williams (Ralph)

Caramoor Brings Us Our Summer Opera

August 1, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

Handel’s Theodora for New Yorkers The final Sunday of July brought New York’s music lovers a remarkable treat when Caramoor presented Handel’s Theodora, the composer’s 1749 oratorio. Caramoor, now known as the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, is a former estate located near Katonah, New York, approximately 50 miles (80 km) north of New …

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Filed Under: Music, Personal History Tagged With: Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Caramoor Summer Music Festival, Costanzo (Anthony Roth), Duncan (Tyler), Handel (George Frideric), Harris (Ellen T.), Mack (Daniela), Munger (Marie-Eve), Pearlman (Martin), Rosen (Walter and Lucie), Shrader (Alex), Stein (Avi), Theodora (opera), Trinity BaroqueOrchestra, Trinity Wall Street Choir

Living in New York: “Akhnaten” Revival at The Met

May 24, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

Although we had Akhnaten at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in November, 2019, I didn’t get to share my thoughts about it when it came to us then. So here is some of what Guy has been thinking about Akhnaten, which opened last Thursday and runs through Friday, June 10 (the final performance of Akhnaten for this season and …

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Filed Under: History, Music, Personal History Tagged With: Akhnaten (opera), Costanzo (Anthony Roth), Gandini Juggling, Glass (Philip), James (Zachary), Jugglers (in opera), Kamensek (Karen), Lárusdóttir (Disella), McDermott (Phelim)

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