Category Archives: Writing

When the cabin crew of British Airways announced a twelve-day strike to impact its customers flying around the world in late December 2009, thousands of vacations were disrupted, weddings were ruined, and the currency of the airline plummeted from the … Continue reading →

“My heart is inditing of a good matter; I speak of the things which I have made unto the King. Kings’ daughters were among the honourable women. Upon thy right hand did stand the Queen in vesture of gold, and … Continue reading →

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 →