Posts Tagged “metropolitan opera”

The Magic of Summertime
06 24 2021

The Magic of Summertime

When one thinks of "American Opera" Often the first thing that comes to mind is Gershwin's Porgy and Bess...I’ve seen it called “too long” and “not a good opera”. It seems to be racially, politically and culturally controversial from every perspecti…

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Visiting the Met Opera Shop!
11 10 2017

Visiting the Met Opera Shop!

Taking a trip to visit the Met Opera Shop this fall was an exhilarating and humbling experience.Of course, going to the home of opera (in my mind anyway- I’ve been hearing Met Opera Saturday broadcasts since I was a child) is exciting under any c…

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Missing Margaret
06 05 2015

Missing Margaret

This week the opera world received sad news, the announcement of the death of longtime Metropolitan Opera broadcast host Margaret Juntwait. I don’t suppose anyone was shocked. Things were clearly very serious since the beginning of the season. Mar…

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01 29 2015

Discovering Bluebeard's Castle

DESIGN NOTES: Once upon a time, when I was first intently "learning opera" by reading Opera for Dummies, I became fascinated by Bartok’s opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle. What the heck is this story? A dark fairytale? A supernatural kind of “twilight…

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Opera, operetta or musical?
01 16 2015

Opera, operetta or musical?

Recently the Metropolitan Opera premiered their new production of Lehar’s operetta The Merry Widow. The production has received mixed reviews, but it brought to my mind the rather basic question: What’s the difference between opera, operetta and…

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