I love Naxos’ pithy summary of the plot of Donizetti’s much-loved opera: Country boy Nemorino is determined to win the haughty Adina’s heart, but she refuses to give him the time of day. Can Doctor […]
From the general manager’s self-admiring Sunday sermon in the pushover NY Times: … I arrived at the Met in 2006 with plans to re-energize its audience engagement through new productions of the classics and new […]
Our roving critic Susan Hall went to see John Adams’ version of Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera. No-one there seems to remember the Samuel Barber opera that opened the new Met in 1966. […]