Harry Rose

Last fall, I undertook the pilgrimage of all pilgrimages for a resident of eastern New England: a visit to Plimoth Patuxet Museums, New England’s premier living history attraction, which re-evokes the original settlement at Plymouth as well as the Wampano... See more

Raftermen for The Atlanta Opera The paucity of public transportation options in some southern cities still comes as a shock to this Northeasterner, no matter how much I read that the rusty but reliable train, subway, and bus systems dotting New England an... See more

Nile Scott Studios Steve Maler , whose numerous directing credits include far more Shakespeare plays than operas, set the opera around what vaguely seemed like the first World War with the characters in muddied trench-ware and helmets ( Amanda Gladu desig... See more

If we wanna get a lil’ idealist with it, let’s say there are transcendent performances – performances that overwhelm, take us beyond ourselves and drop us off, changed, at the other end – and sublime performances – performances where we can bristle and th... See more

Luciano Romano I owe some of my best nights at the opera to Anna Pirozzi and Luca Salsi . I first encountered them together in a memorable Due Foscari in Milan in 2016, it was a scorching 2018 Macbeth in Parma that proved to be a highlight of my operagoin... See more