Tamaki Miura as Butterfly: statue Glover Gardens Nagasaki At one time I disliked Madam Butterfly which I saw as a travesty of Japanese life....

The Met has a new production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor . It opened the season and Lucia is on all the posters. The Lucia depicted i...

The New York Philharmonic Orchestra holds open rehearsals, generally on the morning of the first concert of a series. I have been able to se...

Perhaps there has been a more unusual concert but it would be hard to find. The work was Enoch Arden, Op 38 by Richard Strauss (1896). The ...

Puccini My life in the opera audience began in about 1952 with Puccini’s Tosca. Il trittico was the only one of his major works that I had n...

Wednesday 26 September 2007. After a sushi lunch at sushi train Sosumi, we walked up to St. James for the fellowship concert. The Sydney Sym...

This morning, thanks to the power of the Internet, I learned of confectionery sold in the United States as INCREDIBLY SOFT & CHEWY WILLY...