[Special thanks to Kevin Manion for his generous assistance with this post.] _____________________________________________________________ Since you are reading what is generally referred to as “Guy’s personal blog,” it makes a certain kind of sense to say, once again, how we New Yorkers seem to have a special appreciation for what is available to us. Why? Because …
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Living in New York: “Akhnaten” Revival at The Met
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 …
Living in New York: Two Remarkable New Operas at the Met
We New Yorkers aren’t shy about our love of music, and opera remains high on our list. Despite the loss of the New York City Opera several years ago, and, sadly, very limited performances from the city’s many smaller, independent opera companies (due to the pandemic over the past two years), the Metropolitan is back …
The Russia-Ukraine War: What Do Young People Think?
It’s probably never easy to figure out how to react to what we hear and learn in wartime, in any war. The Russia-Ukraine war is no exception. Many of us – along with many other citizens throughout the world – found some level of comfort with what we thought were the effects of our famous …
Russia-Ukraine War: A Change in Guy’s Posts
These posts recently moved – we might say – to a different point of view from the usual topics I write about here. Those will continue, of course (there are still two more posts to be published about my beloved Vienna, for example). But now I find myself moving into what we used to refer to as …
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