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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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...
Remove “jazz” from today’s edition of Soundcheck on WNYC and replace it with “classical” or “opera” and you’re pretty much in the same ballpark.
Yet while the Terry Teachout-led debate is pretty tame (“I just wish the conversation was more about...
