Lear-Like Bryn Terfel Warms a Heartless Falstaff

That Verdi was the most Shakespearean of composers was no accident. Speaking of his passionate devotion to the Bard in 1850, he said that he “had it in mind to set … all the principal plays of the great dramatist.” The subject that haunted him most was one he never found the courage to tackle- Read More

Not to Worry, Opera Fans-Cooperstown’s in Fine Shape

At New York City Opera a few years ago, there were cries of worry in the always fretful tribe of opera junkies that the marvelously congenial summer festival on the shores of Otsego Lake in Cooperstown, N.Y., would suffer badly, even though Paul Kellogg was staying on as artistic director. And when it was announced Read More