Met’s Fille du Régiment | The Rise of Bel Canto

La Sonnambula: Beautiful Bel Canto, Confused Staging

The Yannick Formula | What I want to say about Yannick Nezet Seguin for long.

Cards, Ghosts, and Obsession | Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades

Salome was not your Object | Met’s Salome

Die Zauberflöte: Too Many Birds, Just Enough Flute

Pastel Marriage - Marriage of Figaro

Sea? Sing? Sink? Met’s Moby-Dick

Contemporary Aida = No Love

Fedelio at the Met

Judging Met’s 25-26 New Productions

Best Opera (I think) -- Pelléas et Mélisande

Rigoletto But Nothing New

Very late review for Trifonov’s Carnegie Recital

Tosca for Twice! What a Stunning Opera!

Ainadamar - Exotic Met's New Production

Disappointments for Víkingur Ólafsson & Nyphil & Honeck

Met's Grounded Grounded

A Mahler that's Actually Mahler & A Beethoven 9 that's not so Beethoven 9

Judging Met’s 25-26 Repertoires