Arts Opera, Acronyms
1. Alex Ross’s take on three new American operas begins like this and only gets better:
July was New American Opera Month in the purple hills of upstate New York and western Massachusetts. You could hardly drive your Smart car from the lesbian bed-and-breakfast to the organic farm stand without running over an adaptation of a literary property.
2. In an email this morning, an artist referred to the Frye Art Museum as FAM. SAM, BAM, TAM, I’ve heard, but FAM was new to me. I rather like it. Reflects the Frye joining the group.
Jen, we have yet to meet, but since we're both fellow Stranger writers who like/follow classical music and opera, we really ought to have some outings together. I'm dying to see Rosenkavalier, mostly to hear Alice Coote (god, that NAME!) as Octavian, but also to test my own patience with Carol Vaness's vocal squal[l]or.
God, I enjoy the hell out of your posts and articles. We should finally meet.