Protests Offstage and On: Iolanta and Bluebeard’s Castle at the Metropolitan Opera

Elizabeth – Protesters and police once again greeted us at the Met, though for Thursday’s premiere of Iolanta and Bluebeard’s Castle the protesters were much smaller in number than this fall’s Klinghoffer protest. The anti-Putin protesters did have great art, though, and a long list of grievances for Russian conductor Valery Gergiev and Russian soprano Anna… [Read More]