Spring has come (finally) to New York and with it an event all of us are celebrating.Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I has arrived with a full-scale revival, and there’s no better way to say it: this is one of the most beautiful stage productions ever to arrive in what many consider to true home …
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Guy’s Homage to WWI: Starting with “The Piano in Wartime: 1914-1918”
It has been a month now since we had what we used to call Armistice Day, and I have decided the conduct my own homage (if that word isn’t a little overblown) to World War I. There isn’t any particular reason. It’s just that – in my opinion – this amazing and horrible event in …
Opera: Klinghoffer Comes to the Met
Despite the recent unpleasantness, John Adams’s The Death of Klinghoffer has arrived at the Metropolitan Opera. Andrew and I did not attempt to attend earlier performances but saved our performance – with great anticipation – for a little later in the run, expecting (and finding) that all parties involved in the performance would have had …
The New York Summer Winds Down with a Special Happy Memory
Caramoor’s Italian Pavilion, overlooking the Butterfly Garden Yes, the Metropolitan Opera and the unions seem to have settled the labor dispute, and we’ve been told that we’ll have opera in New York again this autumn. And there’s the usual array (the only word for it) of up-coming non-operatic events: the New York City Ballet, …
Opera: New York’s Opera Season Ends (I)
Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center We New Yorkers are fortunate to have opera year-round, as some of the smaller opera companies – upon which we are going to depend more and more – perform during the June-September months. For the most part, though, we tend to attach our opera “season” to the dates of our …
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