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The snows that lie on the mountains of Judaea - Parterre Box Salome sweeps in like a storm at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

my review of wild and whirling Salome at the Lyric Opera of Chicago
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reviewing opera sometimes means having to summon all your powers of concentration to try to be smart about richard strauss while you simply have "break the ice" by britney spears stuck in your head instead

my girlfriend and I were literally just talking about this!!!!!! such a distracting blemish on an otherwise lovely scene

my household is talking about this

is it just me or did nobody really care about spotify wrapped this year

"hair do" is so awesome

ahahahahahahaha

cindy LEE 💜

came upon a wile e coyote type trap in chicago

do you guys remember willard's wormholes. internet used to be so good...

sorry but I don’t think i’ll be listening to geese. sorry. i’m actually still super busy with the addison rae album

yeah I miss real newsstands! was also thinking this as I walked past the shuttered former music store in the times square station. there used to be full on retail in there!

I miss when subway stations had little shops in them

really appreciate how madonna gives me permission to dance at the beginning of into the groove. sometimes I’m just not sure if I can dance or not

it was sick as hell!

[after every single pitch] that’s baseball for ya

hip and sexy saturday night

hi everybody what are your can't-miss tristan und isolde recordings... audio or video... thank you love you all xx

since the new york metropolitans were eliminated from postseason contention I have read over a hundred pages of gravity's rainbow. for this incredible gift of free time and energy I must thank the mets, the cause of and solution to all of my problems

many librettists in contemporary opera seem to feel it is their job to provide explicit, declarative emotional exposition

if you don’t like comics or mason bates I suspect this has truly nothing to offer you

Storybored - Parterre Box The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay was, somehow, a fun night at the opera—just not one that felt specifically operatic.

in the Box today reviewing Kavalier and Clay. I bet you’re wondering why they made an opera of Kavalier and Clay. Well, having reviewed it I can conclusively say, I don’t know why they did that either. Check it out!

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my dream is that an evil genius will some day adapt david bowie’s insane outside concept album into a full scale opera

it’s so awesome how mr smith goes to washington asks you to believe that claude rains is not only american, but an american senator. and not only an american senator but an american senator from the same state that jimmy stewart is from #TCMParty

I download my bandcamp purchases as mp3s for my ipod but I also download flacs "just in case" I ever magically transform into someone who cares abt audio quality. I also used to read choose your own adventure books w a finger marking every decision point. it's possible I wasn't built for success

Little girls get bigger every day - Parterre Box Elza van den Heever and Peter Mattei (and the stage elevator) elevate an assertive, if not definitive, new Salome at the Met

the met just opened its first salome in 20 years and they may not be answering my calls about what they’re doing with the peter mattei severed head prop after the run but I did get to review it
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I reviewed Les Dialogues des Carmelites at Juilliard. Poulenc's tragic and sublime opera is kind of like if everyone in Conclave was a woman and also everyone died at the end. Check it out!
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Humdrum existence - Parterre Box Missy Mazzoli has established herself as one of contemporary opera’s most skilled and subtle architects of emotional response, and her latest, The Listeners—now at the Lyric Opera of Chicago—is no exc...

I reviewed the Listeners at the Lyric Opera of Chicago check it out

Mr. Saxo Beat would be a pretty plausible name for a Pynchon protagonist

Brian Eno's "Ambient 1" only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it went on to start an airport.