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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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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Guest blog from Yoon Kwon: Overture bracelet co-designer, Met Orchestra violinist and owner of BYoonique!Original blog post from September 3, 2015:To purchase Overture by BYoonique: click here!Isn’t the first day of school the best? The e…
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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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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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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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