On Friday morning I received another email from New York City Opera. “Dear Shawn, As you may have read by now New York City Opera is on the verge of canceling its season and filing for bankruptcy. You can read more in The New York Times and AP.” Both “The New York Times” and… [Read More]
Last night was the US premiere of Anna Nicole performed by New York City Opera at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Here are our thoughts. Elizabeth – Richard Jones’ production of Anna Nicole made an overall triumphant American debut at the Brooklyn Academy of Music last night courtesy of the sagging New York City… [Read More]
New York City Opera announced Monday that it will cancel the remainder of its season after Anna Nicole if it does not raise $7 million by September 30th (one million of which will be through an online Kickstarter campaign) AND will cancel their entire 2014-15 season if they do not raise an additional $13 million by… [Read More]
New York City Opera announced Monday that it will cancel the remainder of its season after Anna Nicole if it does not raise $7 million by September 30th (one million of which will be through an online Kickstarter campaign) AND will cancel their entire 2014-15 season if they do not raise an additional $13 million by… [Read More]
Last fall VOICExperience (VE) kicked off National Opera Week from Savannah, Georgia. Opera must sit well with the fashionable seersucker set as this year VE was back with the first annual Savannah VOICE Festival with two weeks of events including an evening of David Friedman’s music presented by Friedman himself and master classes with legendary… [Read More]
In honor of my nephew Duncan’s recent trip to New York, I am reposting a story about him I wrote a couple years ago. I spent this past Thanksgiving in Iowa with my half sister, my half brother, their mother, my mother, my half sister’s husband and their 3 year old son. This was all very… [Read More]
I recently thought to myself, who needs yet another overly cerebral, highly jaded heterosexual drag queen like me blathering about the upcoming Metropolitan Opera season on the internet? So I thought we’d let the my future wife and her soon to be mother-in-law have a go solo. Elizabeth – Ticket exchange for Met subscriptions began… [Read More]
To commemorate the sad closing of Big Nick’s Burger and Pizza Joint after 51 years on the Upper West Side, here is a reprint one of the first pieces Elizabeth and I ever wrote together. From February 2012. Big Nick’s: A Veteran and a Newbie’s Perspectives Shawn Big Nick’s Burger and Pizza Joint is on… [Read More]
Courtesy of eelslap.com Click pic above. You’re welcome. -Shawn E Mlines Related Links: 1980’s Sitcom Character Monroe Ficus Publicly Repudiates Actor Jim J Bullock 10 Sexting Autocorrects That Almost Cost Me My Sex Life Rick Santorum Overjoyed to Learn Jim J Bullock Not in Fact Dead, But Heartbroken Bullock Will Still Not Work with… [Read More]
photo courtesy of Lincoln Center Festival Facebook Elizabeth – We had tickets to Toshio Hosokawa’s one act opera Matsukaze this past weekend, but when offered the chance to see the American premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Michaels Reise um die Erde (Michael’s Journey Around the Earth) we jumped at the chance. Admittedly, I don’t know much… [Read More]
