Tag Archives: Pelléas et Mélisande
whole vs. parts? parts is parts . . .
I like all things live more than I like their filmed counterparts–musicals, plays, sports, operas. I’d rather be there in person, in the thick of a basketball game, than reduced to watching it on TV. I’d much rather be gazing at a stage … Continue reading
Filed under Classic Opera, North American Opera, Rant, Reviews
don’t quote me . . .
“Music really ought to have been a hermetical science, enshrined in texts so laborious and difficult as to discourage the herd of people who treat it as casually as they do a handkerchief. I would go further, and instead of spreading music … Continue reading
Filed under 20th Century Opera, opera quotes
water, light, darkness, good, evil–all combine in ‘Pelléas et Mélisande’
A Golden Operatoonity Post* Imagine a fairy tale with the backdrop of the most evocative Impressionist paintings you can conceive, pierced by the unrelenting darkness of a Poe story. If you can imagine such a tale set to Debussy’s music, … Continue reading
have you met the Ginger Trietto?
I have a little secret. I have a supplier . . . of nifty opera guides. My fellow writer Ginger travels 200+ days a year for her job and frequents secondhand shops. Whenever she finds a book about opera, no … Continue reading
Filed under Classic Opera, Classical Composers, favorites, Heartstoppers
