When I was a young singer, it was a commonplace that two percent of opera singers – those dwelling in the rarified atmosphere of a Domingo, a Sutherland, a Pavarotti – earned…
When I was a young singer, it was a commonplace that two percent of opera singers – those dwelling in the rarified atmosphere of a Domingo, a Sutherland, a Pavarotti – earned…
The repercussions of H.K. Gruber’s non-arrival in New York for last Friday night’s concert with David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra continue to echo. Thanks to Robertson’s last-minute debut as a singer/kazooist in Zankel Hall, he and the…
A copy of the New York Times sat outside my hotel room’s door this morning — and there on the bottom of A1 was a refer for chief critic Anthony Tommasini’s (highly favorable) review of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s…