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Off Book: The Improvised Musical podcast had a delightful exploration of the impish Salvador Dalí, an incredibly successful cat rescue, and...

I enjoyed the all-video chat performance of Gianni Schicchi by Opera Ithaca . It's a quick, cute comedic opera, so having it set as a fa...

Every Place I Cry  was an improvised emo concert, whose direct-to-me marketing absolutely worked because I love Jess McKenna and Zach Reino ...

WHEREAS the ongoing pandemic and various other elements of environmental, social, political, economic, and biological disaster loom large, a...

Swarthmore College Lab Orchestra 's presentation of Sergei Prokofiev 's Peter and the Wolf was delightful --- playful, cute, fun, ...

When I walked to work this morning the sun had just risen and it was cold, so I wore my jacket and mittens. But it turned out to be a warm,...

Opera Philadelphia's production of Don Giovanni offers a very minimal staging and scenery; the stage is draped, from the high ceiling ...

Dear Evan Hansen is a recent Broadway musical, focused on themes of connectivity (digital, interpersonal) and isolation (same). See previou...

I take attendance by having the students answer a question. What song was most recently stuck in your head? Students are in a different ...

This musical will forcibly draw tears from your tear ducts.  It will wrench the feelings straight out of your heart and condense them on you...

Certain sentences can grind my brain to a halt, demanding attention and completely derailing the reading process, whether by tone, word cho...

The Palace Garnier is a beautiful building, ornate and baroque and frankly luscious inside. (See previous shots of the lobby .) The perform...

Verdi 's Il trovatore is a... an opera. I wanted to write something like "a jolly operatic jaunt into the stereotyped gender-roles...

I saw a concert at the Musée d'Orsay last night as part of a weekend-long celebration . The music was a nice selection --- all in Frenc...

La Voix Humaine is an opera for one voice. Alone. I have never encountered such a thing, but this was curious and fascinating and jarring. ...

Bluebeard's Castle  struck me as darkly humorous, like a twisted gothic take on an already-perverse Gorey story. Let me summarize the pl...

I live a life of sumptuous luxury. (Alternating with canny poverty, so that it all averages out.) Last night was a brief dart into the extra...

I just saw a master class in opera conducted by Philippe Jordan. Four students presented three pieces, sang through them with various interr...

I indulgently watched the nearly four-hour-long opera  Le Nozze di Figaro  last night, a production by  Opera Zurich , as broadcast in a com...

Modern technology is a delight --- yesterday I  watched the Zurich Opera's live performance of Don Pasquale . No passport, flight, trai...