A sometimes opera administrator and freelance writer, Olivia Giovetti has launched the massive Opster Project. The goal: listen to every opera in chronological order. The time frame: A (somewhat flexible) year. The blog: charting every step of the way.
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As the Opster Project moves closer towards the age of the castrati, it’s all-too-appropriate that Cecilia Bartoli’s latest CD should be all about the boys of the bris. By means of an extra-curricular study, I’ll listen to Sacrificium when I break...
Lully’s Phaëton is an interesting animal. But first, a setting:
I’ve been working with Brooklyn Academy of Music for the past six weeks. It’s a 45-minute commute from my alcove in Queens, but it’s a straight shot on the N line thru Manhattan and...
After Danielle de Niese’s recent (Le) Poisson Rouge concert, I decided to let one Angeleno meet another and brought my boyfriend, Lawson, around to the autograph table. Ok, the egotist in me also wanted her autograph on the full-page interview I did...
Ovid count…8!
I love the intersection of opera and other forms of art. Take, for instance, Lully’s Persée. Having been to both Barcelona and Florence, I remember Dali’s and Cellini’s sculptures of Perseus with the decapitated head of everyone’s...
I have a stack of papers on my (brand-ish new CB2) desk full of notes from the recordings I’ve listened to for the Opster Project. They’re there. I’m at the close of the 1600s, and I promised myself I wouldn’t go into the 18th Century until I...
