Elizabeth – Opening night of Tales of Hoffmann at the Met started off a bit flat. Perhaps it was the overhang muffling the sound from our Met lottery seats (score!), but I wasn’t feeling the usual excitement from the stage or the audience. I saw Martina Arroyo’s Prelude to Performance perform Tales of Hoffmann last year… [Read More]
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]
