Opera

Visually Stunning and Emotional ‘Medium’

Saturday, June 4, 2011
by Lindsay Koob
Visually Stunning and Emotional ‘Medium’

I MUST CONFESS that, over the long haul, I’ve never been a big fan of Gian Carlo Menotti’s operas. Sure, as a teenager, I was beguiled—even moved to tears—by his Amahl and the Night Visitors. But none of his remaining operas (or other music, for that matter) has given me reason to consider him... Read »

New Magic in a Mozart Favorite

Saturday, May 28, 2011
by William Furtwangler
New Magic in a Mozart Favorite

PYROTECHNICS, EXPLOSIONS, thunder and lightning, strobe lights, and flying singers: not what is usually expected in classical period opera. But Spoleto USA’s production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) had all this and more. It lived up to an opera lover’s expectations of being well sung, well conducted, well staged, and well worth... Read »

A Solution for This Country

“I want to see us begin again. Let’s get out of these wars and come on back here. Take all the money we are spending elsewhere, trying to control other places, and start to rebuild the structure. Put money and prestige back into the schools. Start teaching kids in day care. Scientists tell us the earlier kids start to learn, the more capable they are of learning, and we are not taking advantage of that. We start there and we put ourselves back in the running.”

~ actor Morgan Freeman in an interview with Garden&Gun

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The world is made of rings. The hooks are all yours. Unbend your hooks.   ~ Nisargadatta

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