Our new, knowledgable and heavily nom de plumed contributor Loki von Karajan recently saw Sondra Radvanovsky in Toronto and has something to say about it… Loki – This week, I found myself in Toronto and jumped at the chance to hear a singer I greatly admire, Ms. Sondra Radvanovsky, in concert. I’m used to seeing this… [Read More]
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]
Guest Commentator and Schleppy Nabucco Field Agent Mimi Zeffirelli sounds off about Hamburg Staatsoper’s production of Ariadne auf Naxos. Mimi – As a devotee of opera, a working singer, and an admitted fan of Facebook’s Against Modern Opera Productions, I have been scarred by Regietheater before. Therefore it was with a mix of apprehension and excitement… [Read More]
Elizabeth – I was a bit surprised at how empty the Met was for this season’s first performance of Die Frau ohne Schatten. At first I thought it was just that I had arrived rather early and not many people were there yet, but as the lights dimmed I looked around and huge chunks of the… [Read More]
