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Off-topic diva Veronika Part danced her last leads at ABT this season (she is scheduled for a large supporting part -- Myrtha -- in two later performances of Giselle) in two terrific and well-received performances of La Bayadere. As a commenter here noted, however, word on the internet (also... Read more...
Published 5 days ago
The realist's burden
Although (his terrific Pelleas the next season notwithstanding) essentially persona non grata at the Met since his impolitic press row with Cecilia Bartoli a decade ago, director Jonathan Miller has continued to have a presence in New York, directing shows at BAM and other venues around the city.... Read more...
Published 1 week ago
AP vs... the future
This is, honestly, hilarious -- mostly because it will fail miserably and only damage the Associated Press brand. Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago
Apologies
A trip out of town resulted in a more thorough incommunicado than I'd expected. A review from before that should follow soon. Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago
Farewell to the off-topic diva
At this point most who care have likely long since seen this interview or simply heard the news: ballerina Veronika Part -- this blog's official off-topic diva -- is leaving ABT after this season.Her time at ABT was surely frustrating -- if perhaps not nearly as sad and awful as that piece might... Read more...
Published 1 month ago
La Scala silliness
Words fail me in regard to this story, but this photoshop (via Victoria, who may in fact have made it) is amusing...I predict, however, that the Gore Effect will cause the premiere to be buried in snow. Read more...
Published 1 month ago
Stop and start
The 2007-2008 season, like most at the Met, ended uneventfully: a series of good performances, yes, but no climactic closing event. But after last Saturday evening's Macbeth -- the end of the season at the house -- were two Met Orchestra concerts at Carnegie Hall. It was hard to feel the... Read more...
Published 1 month ago
The renouncers
The last Met performance this season of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio -- almost two weeks ago now, I'm afraid -- was, as reports had suggested, a modest but real success. I was pleasantly surprised by the second couple: Aleksandra Kurzak finessed the high notes a bit but played Blonde... Read more...
Published 1 month ago
Calleja, mediated
Just a quick note upon hearing Joseph Calleja's Macduff over Sirius.In the house the overpowering first impression -- to my ears, at any rate -- of his sound is its spaciousness. It's within this heroic-scale frame that his distinctive throwback vibrato fits and works, bringing character and... Read more...
Published 2 months ago
Fabrication, the conclusion?
Perhaps it's just coincidence (and, given the paper's chronic financial woes of late, not a surprising one) but the New York Times has bought out the reviewer (Bernard Holland) who couldn't be bothered to attend the OONY Gala he reviewed.Holland never showed signs of actually enjoying opera --... Read more...
Published 2 months ago
Seeing stars
It's a glorious indulgence of luxury casting that brings us this month's return (beginning last night) of Verdi's Macbeth at the Met. Where else could you find -- for one aria each! -- Rene Pape pressed into service as Banquo and Joseph Calleja as Macduff? Pape, as ever, makes the most of his... Read more...
Published 2 months ago
Star turn
After the male-centeredness of Stephen Wadsworth's kitschy, over-the-top direction of Iphigenie earlier this season made Susan Graham's character a bit player and third wheel in her own eponymous opera, Graham now finds herself better-highlighted by the revival of Ponnelle's classic "La Clemenza... Read more...
Published 2 months ago
