It seemed only fitting that tonight was the sober, majestic performance of Verdi's Requiem in honor of Luciano Pavarotti at the Metropolitan Opera.
David A. Andelman | Posted 08.21.2008 | Home
Throughout the Nazi era in Germany, while Hitler and his minions were in the process of enslaving much of Europe, Wilhelm Furtwaengler served as chief...
Ben Rosen | Posted 06.18.2008 | Business
Even though opera is an anachronism, a centuries-old art form replete with some of the creakiest plots imaginable, the 2008 opera -- at least the Met Opera-- is where the action is.
Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.09.2008 | Entertainment
What these men have also done is highlight how complex aspiration is, and in many cases, how it so often depends on love as much as political or personal will.
Patricia Zohn | Posted 04.04.2008 | Entertainment
What is it about women, men and water? This week, everyone I saw on stage or screen was jumping or landing in cold water to make a change in their lives.
Patricia Zohn | Posted 03.14.2008 | Entertainment
If you are a woman, and are seeking troop strength about how to be a survivor in a world filled with powerful, demanding, or devious men, there is no better place to go than the opera.
Ivan Katz | Posted 10.24.2007 | Entertainment
If librettist Nicolas-François Guillard's retelling of the Iphigenia ever had any light bits in it, history is silent on the subject. It is as unrelievedly grim a tale of this particular branch of the unhappy House of Atreus as humankind has ever crafted.
Patricia Zohn | Posted 09.27.2007 | Entertainment
Would you be willing to throw all your preconceptions and previous encounters with opera out the window and give it another chance?
Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 09.18.2007 | Entertainment
On a crisp Sunday morning, I arrived at the plaza on Lincoln Center where I joined a group of fellow opera enthusiasts in a queue that snaked around metal barricades -- at least ten lines deep.
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Patricia Zohn | Posted 09.19.2008 | Entertainment