Luke 10:27

I want to remember two small, but mighty theatrical experiences today, one operatic, and one ballet. 1)The Met radio broadcast this morning ...

I f Der Rosenkavalier is an opera made of crystal and light, this final trio is the prism for the entire work. In an absolutely ethereal ...

Critic’s notebook: “Rosenkavalier” at the Met on HD, 1/9/10

For Christmas, Steve gave me tickets to go see two Metropolitan Opera broadcasts in HD at the comfy Gateway theater in Springfield. (No gre...

Okay, let's talk about this greatest of all art forms. Here's an amusing introduction from Kim Thompson:

CHRIST IS RISEN! My ideal soundtrack for this morning: Vaughan Williams, "Fantasy on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" Rimsky-Korsakov, ...

St. Cecelia, by J. W. Waterhouse. 1895. " A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on t...

T oday marks the 121st anniversary of the debut of Verdi's Otello : Feb. 5, 1887, at La Scala in Milan. To my mind it is Verdi's gr...

T his afternoon the house was empty so I cranked up the Metropolitan opera broadcast of Wagner's Die Walkure . Almost everyone kno...

Here is part of Keillor's remembrance: "....In fact, the times I've wanted to plant my feet and sing in my upper register and s...

So Luciano Pavarotti is gone. I have seen Placido Domingo several times, in Chicago and in Omaha; as Ramses, Don Jose, Hoffman, and Samson. ...

“A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.”-- Beverly Sills...