Further Thoughts on Mahler’s Fourth Symphony
Since my first posting on the final movement of the Mahler 4th Symphony, I’ve had a number of good conversations about the piece […]
DF on Record Collecting, Comparative Listening, and Mahler’s Fourth Symphony
Of my many changing identities (child, adult, student, working man) the one that’s lasted longest – and may be the deepest in […]
DF Preview — Arden Theatre Cabaret Series (December 2015)
Cabaret, perhaps our most intimate live art form, gets a new series – and a new venue – courtesy of the Arden Theatre Company.
Tosca with Angela Gheorghiu (Metropolitan Opera, 29 October 2015)
When a critic friend invited me to the Met Tosca, I jumped at the chance. I wanted another opportunity to hear Angela […]
DF Reviews Winterreise with Mark Padmore and Kristian Bezuidenhout (Alice Tully Hall)
I’m a great lover of Schubert, and I’ve attended a number of memorable Lieder recitals. Yet I haven’t been to many live performances of […]
DF Reviews The Children’s Hour (EgoPo Classic Theater)
Dramatist or melodramatist? The jury is still out on Lillian Hellman, whose play, The Children’s Hour, is onstage now at EgoPo, directed […]
DF Reviews La Traviata (Opera Philadelphia)
For more than a century and a half, La Traviata has been one of opera’s enduring favorites, beloved equally by neophytes and […]
DF on Andy: A Popera (Review and Podcast Link)
As arts collaborations go, these seem like strange bedfellows indeed: the Bearded Ladies, Philadelphia’s gender-bending, satiric, outré, and greatly beloved theatre troupe […]
Opera Review: Dialogues des Carmélites (Caramoor, July 2015)
Dialogues des Carmélites was (to me, at least) a surprising choice for Will Crutchfield’s Caramoor Opera. Poulenc’s masterpiece falls outside what the Festival […]
Opera Review: La Favorite at Caramoor (July 2
Last Saturday, I finally made it to the Opera Festival at Caramoor, something I’d long wanted to do, but the timing never […]
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