Elizabeth – Last Friday we hopped on the afternoon Acela to DC to check out Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative present three new 20 minute operas at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Now in its third year, the goal of the program is to train librettists and composers and prepare them… [Read More]
Diapered Greeks and Trojan Horses: Les Troyens at the Metropolitan Opera
This past week we saw Les Troyens at the Met. At just over five hours, it was by far the longest evening at the opera either of us had ever experienced. Shockingly, we both stayed awake the entire time. Les Troyens is the story of the fall of Troy to the Greeks, the escape from… [Read More]
