Elizabeth – I hate Sir Walter Scott. The high school legacy of Ivanhoe reverberates to this day and made the prospect of Rossini’s opera based on Sir Walter Scott’s poem The Lady of the Lake daunting. But Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Florez surely would save the day, right? I’m not sure where Paul Curran’s inspiration… [Read More]
Looming Strikes and Sterling Tenors: La Cenerentola at the Metropolitan Opera
Elizabeth – The Premiere of La Cenerentola last night was spectacular. Not for the high end fashion (I didn’t see much of that), nor the celebrity crowd (although I’m sure there were some), but solely because of Javier Camarena and Joyce DiDonato. Monday night was the first that I experienced the pure joy of opera, complete… [Read More]
Knights of the Table Hee Haw: Le Comte Ory at the Metropolitan Opera
This weekend we saw the infrequently performed Le Comte Ory at the Met. So infrequently performed it made its Met debut only in 2011. We were excited to see an opera with music we had most likely never been exposed to before in any form. The singing was top notch across the board. If there… [Read More]
