Far Better Than Turks and Croatians: Der Rosenkavalier at the Metropolitan Opera

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]