The annual announcement of The Metropolitan Opera’s upcoming season is always certain to spur a bit of highbrow cultural reportage among media outlets that go for that sort of thing. Such was the case today when The Met revealed the…
Many who know me are aware what a big opera buff I am. I’ve held a subscription to the Los Angeles Opera‘s annual season for at least the past five years, and when I travel I make a point of…
There has been a lot of hoopla in the media of late about the success various opera companies have had beaming high definition simulcasts of their performances into cinemas. New York’s Metropolitan Opera can be credited with starting this trend…