Last full breath before diving into another semester 26 Jan 2011 | 04:49 am

Listless List 22 Jan 2011 | 04:18 am

The List is out. Here's how our boys fared: But the dynamic duo of 19th-century opera, Verdi and Wagner, aimed high. As I already let slip, they both make my list. That a new production of a Verdi op...

La Travesty 20 Jan 2011 | 05:21 am

The limitations of her performance were particularly glaring in Act II, when Germont, Alfredo's father, arrived like a death knell to separate her from her last chance at happiness. Here, she was pair...

Breaking news: Verdi and Wagner Make it to History's Most Pompous Top 10 List 18 Jan 2011 | 02:43 am

The New York Times' Anthony Tommasini argues for their inclusion in his own most exclusive list of "The 10 Greatest Composers of Classical Music", otherwise known as "The Most Predictable Top 10 List ...

Real Housewife of UWS 16 Jan 2011 | 03:02 am

We have something spontaneous (for lunch), something small. Dinner is the big meal. I love to eat, but no way am I going to do a diet; forget it! I just am careful about how much I eat. Sure, I would ...

Traviata Epic Fail 13 Jan 2011 | 06:17 pm

Verdi LA TRAVIATA, 12.01.11; c. Noseda; Poplavskaya, Polenzani, Dobber. The sets, supposedly new, squeaked and creaked a number of times throughout the evening, which was distracting, to say the leas...

Critically short 13 Jan 2011 | 02:11 am

Scary for other reasons was Sondra Radvanovsky’s first Met Tosca, sung flat and evoking all the tragic grandeur of a Real Housewife of New Jersey. Funny! (But only one line devoted to the headliner?)...

Untitled 12 Jan 2011 | 06:20 pm

Flat review 12 Jan 2011 | 09:26 am

For the soprano, mark it down as a work in progress. Give the tenor extra credit for a save-the-day substitution. But the highest grade goes to the baritone, for masterfully stealing the show. ... Mo...

Ringing Tosca 11 Jan 2011 | 08:28 pm

Puccini TOSCA, 10.01.11; c. Armiliato; Radvanovsky, Alagna, Struckmann. The throbbing, relentlessly lachrymose and sonically gifted soprano of Sondra Radvanovsky enters a new dimension. She probably ...