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Latest update: 27.IV.13
I have written hundreds of articles—features, profiles, advances, essays, program notes, and reviews of recordings, performances, books, exhibitions, and plays.
Many are now offline or behind firewalls by the choice of the publications in which they appeared. I have uploaded a representative selection of articles and plan to add to this screen by and by.
Please note that I have a blog in support of my book-in-progress about Maria Callas: Re-visioning Callas. I also blog about Verdi at Verdi Duecento.
NewMusicBox
Reports of the Death of Opera Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Town & Country
Review of Inventing Elsa Maxwell: How an Irrepressible Nobody Conquered High Society, Hollywood, the Press, and the World by Sam Staggs (October 2012)
The Glyndebourne Festival
Bravo, Basso Buffo! (Profile of Alessandro Corbelli for the 2013 festival program)
Kronos Quartet
Program note on Aleksandra Vrebalov’s arrangement of the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde
The Wall Street Journal
Review of Moral Fire by Joseph Horowitz
WQXR’s “Operavore” blog
A Springtime Reading List for Opera Lovers, Part I and Part II.
Defiant Requiem Reprises Holcaust-Era Performance of Verdi
Cavalli Opera is a Good Old-Fashioned Tale of Raunch and Cross-Dressing
Recordings Round-Up: Three Shades of Virtuosity (Karina Gauvin, Max Emanuel Cencic, Jonas Kaufmann)
Love is Hell: Orpheus Endures as Favorite Opera Subject
Advance on the first annual Prototype Festival
The Best and Worst of Opera in 2012
The Operavore 2012 Holiday Gift Guide
Review of A History of Opera by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker
Recording Roundup: Joyce DiDonato and Nicholas Phan, A Study in Contrasts
A Mystical Madwoman as Unlikely Opera Heroine (on Salvatore Sciarrino’s Infinito nero)
Thoroughly postmodern Cecilia (on Cecilia Bartoli, her Mission project, and her ever-evolving image)
Capital New York
A Pasolini series at MoMA provides occasion to revisit the principled, prolific filmmaker
A rare chance to contemplate Renaissance painter Rosso Fiorentino at the Morgan
Review of Verdi’s Otello at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of “John Cage: The Sight of Silence” at the National Academy Museum
Review of Cardiff and Miller’s The Murder of Crows at the Park Avenue Armory
Review of A Ship Without a Sail: The Life of Lorenz Hart by Gary Marmorstein.
Review of “Renaissance Venice” at the Morgan Library & Museum
Advance on the Museum of Modern Art’s Werner Schroeter retrospective
Advance on Juilliard Don Giovanni and Manhattan School of Music Ghosts of Versailles
Advance on the Choral Society’s performance of Verdi’s Manzoni Requiem at Saint Thomas
Forward
Q&A with pianist and composer Matan Porat
Review of Trinity Wall Street’s recording of Handel’s Israel in Egypt
Review and Q&A about Opus One, the first recording by the Israeli Chamber Project
Review of Boston Baroque’s Lin recording of The Seasons by Joseph Haydn
Interview with David Greilsammer and review of Baroque Conversations
Review of the film Defiant Requiem, about Verdi at Terezín
Review of Arianna Savall’s Hirundo Maris
Feature on Otto Bettmann centenary exhibition, Worth Thousands of Words
Feature on photographer Frédéric Brenner, Putting the Pieces of the Puzzle Together
The Classical Review
Review of concert by Renée Fleming and the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall
Review of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of Wagner’s Siegfried at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of Offenbach’s La Périchole at New York City Opera
Review of Rossini’s Mosè in Egitto at New York City Opera
Review of Wagner’s Die Walküre at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of Wagner’s Das Rheingold at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s all-Wagner program at Carnegie Hall
Review of Verdi’s La traviata at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of Britten’s The Turn of the Screw at New York City Opera
Review of Verdi’s Don Carlo at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of Adès’s Powder Her Face at New York City Opera
Review of Wagner’s Parsifal at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of Giordano’s Andrea Chénier performed by Opera Orchestra of New York
Review of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of Berlioz’s Les Troyens at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of Verdi’s Il trovatore at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of Kaija Saariaho’s Émilie at the Lincoln Center Festival
Review of Britten’s Billy Budd at the Metropolitan Opera
Report on New York City Opera’s 2012–2013 season announcement
Review of Verdi’s La traviata at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of Massenet’s Manon at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of Mozart’s Così fan tutte at New York City Opera
Review of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of Rufus Wainwright’s Prima Donna at New York City Opera
Review of Verdi’s Aida at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of Verdi’s Ernani at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of The Enchanted Island at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of Ian Bostridge and Thomas Adès in recital at Carnegie Hall
Review of Handel’s Rodelinda at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur by Opera Orchestra of New York
USItalia
Essay, “Re-visioning Callas.” USItalia is defunct, but this award-winning essay is now the basis for my book and Callas blog.
Profile, “Being Cecilia Bartoli”
GO Magazine
Review of Martha Wainwright at Le Poisson Rouge
Women’s Review of Books
Review of The Silent Duchess (La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa) by Dacia Maraini
Time Out New York
Review of David T. Little’s Soldier Songs at the Prototype Festival
Advance on Zankel Hall program by Trinity Choir
Review of Gesualdo, Quinto libro di madrigali performed by the Hilliard Ensemble (ECM)
Review of Klaus Florian Vogt, Helden (Sony Classics)
Review of Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar at The Kitchen
Review of You, My Mother at La Mama
Advance on Gianmaria Testa and Paolo Fresu at Joe’s Pub
Profile of conductor Fabio Luisi
Profile of tenor Marcello Giordani
Feature on Cecilia Bartoli and Maria, her tribute to Maria Malibran
Review of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Stimmung (Harmonia Mundi)
Feature on Brave Old World and their Song of the Lodz Ghetto project
Feature on Ewa Podles and her Caramoor performance of Rossini’s Tancredi
Profile (with sidebar) of Mirella Freni
Review of Paolo Conte, Elegia (WEA International)
Review of Gianmaria Testa, Altre latitudini (Le Chant du Monde)
Feature on literary translation, Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear
Review of Sofia Gubaidulina CD (Chandos)
Review of Les Yeux Noirs, Live (World Village)
Review of Mark Abley, Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages
Review of Frédéric Brenner, Diaspora: Homelands in Exile
Review of Frances Itani, Deafening
Advance on La Juive at the Metropolitan Opera
Newsday
Review of Verdi’s Macbeth at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale at the Metropolitan Opera
Fast Chat with director Anthony Minghella
Fast Chat with director Julie Taymor and composer Elliot Goldenthal
Feature on Howard Shore and his Lord of the Rings scores
Fast Chat with director Peter Sellars
Review of Arvo Pärt/Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir concert
Advance on concert by Young People’s Chorus of New York
Feature on Rufus Wainwright
Review of Verdi’s La traviata, Metropolitan Opera
Review of Los Angeles Philamonic and “The Dharma at Big Sur” by John Adams
Fast Chat with Joshua Bell
Review of Verdi’s Falstaff at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of Carlo Goldoni, Arlecchino
Review of Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera
Review of concert by Gerard Edery Ensemble
Review of New York Philharmonic concerts under Riccardo Chailly
Review of Annie Gosfield, chamber and solo works
Review of Verd’s La traviata at New York City Opera
Profile of cellist Matt Haimovitz
Profile of soprano Dawn Upshaw
Fast Chat with Cecilia Bartoli
Review of Puccini’s La fanciulla del West performed by Opera Orchestra of New York
Feature on John Barry/Collegiate Chorale Lion in Winter program
Advance on The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island by Ben Katchor and Mark Mulcahy
Advance on New York début of Trio Mediæval
Advance on Sutermeister’s Die schwarze Spinne by Gotham Chamber Opera
Review of Alice Tully Hall recital by Juan Diego Flórez
Playbill
Program essay for Handel’s Alcina at New York City Opera
Program essay for Handel’s Flavio at New York City Opera
Panache
Feature on director Robert Wilson, Against the Grain
Feature on Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Lovestruck
Preview of New York City Opera season, The People’s Opera
Feature on violinist Joshua Bell, Raising Bell’s Curve
Salon.com
Review of Evan S. Connell, Deus lo volt! Chronicle of the Crusades
Review of Sheri Holman, The Dress Lodger
Review of Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring; Katharine Weber, The Music Lesson; and Susan Vreeland, Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Internationally syndicated.
Review of Antonio Tabucchi, The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro
Review of Barry Unsworth, Sugar and Rum
Opera News
Review of Bryan Magee, The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy
Review of Carolyn Abbate, In Search of Opera
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