Elizabeth – This weekend we won rushtickets to the Met’s Rosenkavalier. I didn’t know the story of Rosenkavalier, but I had heard that this was essentially a Strauss version of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, a favorite of mine, and so I was excited to see the performance. When we arrived, I discovered Alice Coote was singing… [Read More]
Six Characters in Search of a Murder: Two Boys at the Metropolitan Opera
Elizabeth – Settling in to our seats for Two Boys, the first night of OPERA America’s National Opera Week, Shawn and I were playing with our iPhones when an older usher came over and told us politely, yet firmly, that we were not allowed to use our iPhones in the theater, only the lobby. I… [Read More]
