From Jonas Kaufman’s adventures with the Reverse Scalpers to the protests and madness of the Met’s snow day make-up premiere of Iolanta and Bluebeard’s Castle to our handy dandy Met Online Rush Ticket Walkthrough to a spy in the loving house of the International Opera Awards here are our top four most viewed posts of… [Read More]
One of our many anonymous contributors/spies found themselves at the International Opera Awards ceremony in London on Sunday and gave us a quick breakdown of the highs and lows… As a full house gathered in the Savoy Theatre, the audience well represented the tone of the evening: a division between the old and the new,… [Read More]
Elizabeth – When I heard Jonas Kaufmann cancelled for Wednesday’s performance of Carmen, I have to admit I wasn’t surprised. I don’t doubt (well, maybe there is a little doubt) that he is sick, but hearing that he was only going to be in two performances of one show at the Met this year made me… [Read More]
Elizabeth – The premiere of the new production of Massenet’s Werther at the Metropolitan Opera was a bit of a star studded event. Tim Robbins, Christine Baranski and many opera fans were decked out in their finest. It was rather refreshing, after weeks of polar vortex hell and everyone tossing on Hunter boots or Uggs for… [Read More]
We were particularly excited to see Parsifal this past week at the Met—as both Jonas Kaufmann and Rene Pape are in it and the production was getting rave reviews. And the Met’s Parsifal did not disappoint. This was my first time seeing Parsifal and Shawn’s first time seeing any Wagner opera and so we went… [Read More]
