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I have written hundreds of articles—features, profiles, advances, essays, program notes, reviews of recordings, performances, books, exhibitions, plays, y mucho mas.

Sadly, nearly all are now offline or behind firewalls by the choice of the publications in which they appeared. I have uploaded a representative selection of articles and plan to add to this screen by and by.

Please note that I have a blog in support of my book-in-progress about Maria Callas: Re-visioning Callas. I also blog about Verdi at Verdi Duecento.

Here are a few links to get you started.

The Classical Review

Review of Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera

Review of The Enchanted Island at the Metropolitan Opera

Review of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel at the Metropolitan Opera

Review of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Metropolitan Opera

Review of Ian Bostridge and Thomas Adès in recital at Carnegie Hall

Review of Handel’s Rodelinda at the Metropolitan Opera

Review of Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera

Review of Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur by Opera Orchestra of New York

USItalia

Essay, “Re-visioning Callas.” USItalia is defunct, but this award-winning essay is now the basis for my book and Callas blog.

GO Magazine

Review of Martha Wainwright at Le Poisson Rouge

Women’s Review of Books

Review of The Silent Duchess (La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa) by Dacia Maraini

Time Out New York

Advance on Gianmaria Testa and Paolo Fresu at Joe’s Pub

Profile of conductor Fabio Luisi

Profile of tenor Marcello Giordani

Feature on Cecilia Bartoli and Maria, her tribute to Maria Malibran

Review of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Stimmung (Harmonia Mundi)

Feature on Brave Old World and their Song of the Lodz Ghetto project

Feature on Ewa Podles and her Caramoor performance of Rossini’s Tancredi

Profile (with sidebar) of Mirella Freni

Review of Paolo Conte, Elegia (WEA International)

Review of Gianmaria Testa, Altre latitudini (Le Chant du Monde)

Feature on literary translation, Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear

Review of Sofia Gubaidulina CD (Chandos)

Review of Les Yeux Noirs, Live (World Village)

Review of Mark Abley, Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages

Review of Frédéric Brenner, Diaspora: Homelands in Exile

Review of Frances Itani, Deafening

Advance on La Juive at the Metropolitan Opera

Newsday

Review of Verdi’s Macbeth at the Metropolitan Opera

Review of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale at the Metropolitan Opera

Fast Chat with director Anthony Minghella

Fast Chat with director Julie Taymor and composer Elliot Goldenthal

Feature on Howard Shore and his Lord of the Rings scores

Fast Chat with director Peter Sellars

Review of Arvo Pärt/Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir concert

Advance on concert by Young People’s Chorus of New York

Feature on Rufus Wainwright

Review of Verdi’s La traviata, Metropolitan Opera

Review of Los Angeles Philamonic and “The Dharma at Big Sur” by John Adams

Fast Chat with Joshua Bell

Review of Verdi’s Falstaff at the Metropolitan Opera

Review of Carlo Goldoni, Arlecchino

Review of Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera

Review of concert by Gerard Edery Ensemble

Review of New York Philharmonic concerts under Riccardo Chailly

Review of Annie Gosfield, chamber and solo works

Review of Verd’s La traviata at New York City Opera

Profile of cellist Matt Haimovitz

Profile of soprano Dawn Upshaw

Fast Chat with Cecilia Bartoli

Review of Puccini’s La fanciulla del West performed by Opera Orchestra of New York

Feature on John Barry/Collegiate Chorale Lion in Winter program

Advance on The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island by Ben Katchor and Mark Mulcahy

Advance on New York début of Trio Mediæval

Advance on Sutermeister’s Die schwarze Spinne by Gotham Chamber Opera

Review of Alice Tully Hall recital by Juan Diego Flórez

Playbill

Program essay for Handel’s Alcina at New York City Opera

Program essay for Handel’s Flavio at New York City Opera

Forward

Feature on Otto Bettmann centenary exhibition, Worth Thousands of Words

Feature on photographer Frédéric Brenner, Putting the Pieces of the Puzzle Together

Panache

Feature on director Robert Wilson, Against the Grain

Feature on Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Lovestruck

Preview of New York City Opera season, The People’s Opera

Feature on violinist Joshua Bell, Raising Bell’s Curve

Salon.com

Review of Evan S. Connell, Deus lo volt! Chronicle of the Crusades

Review of Sheri Holman, The Dress Lodger

Review of Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring; Katharine Weber, The Music Lesson; and Susan Vreeland, Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Internationally syndicated.

Review of Antonio Tabucchi, The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro

Review of Barry Unsworth, Sugar and Rum

Opera News

Book, performance, and CD reviews in the Opera News archives

Review of Bryan Magee, The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy

Review of Carolyn Abbate, In Search of Opera

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