Author Archives: Paul Crabtree

Reports are coming in that the Metropolitan Opera’s new tech-heavy production of The Ring has ambitions beyond its ability to deliver; the rainbow bridge that should afford the gods entry victoriously but callously to their new castle across the river … Continue reading →

Galilea Are there too many stars, you angry sky, that you should grant me stewardship? Suppose I do not care to interrupt our world, give birth with Mary to a larger life that, cuckoo-like, will hurl me from the nest. … Continue reading →

You have to hand it to Placido Domingo, the General Director of the Los Angeles Opera. In June 2010 he loses $6 MILLION on an ill-conceived and ill-executed production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, and yet in September 2010 he is … Continue reading →