At the Met: The Barber of Seville
Posted in art, literature & other distractions on Monday, Mar. 8, 2010Go see it, it was GREAT! Here’s some drawings I did in the dark from the seat that was so kindly given to me by a friend who couldn’t make it.
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Postcard from the blizzard
Posted in etc. on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010Fort Tryon Park:
This is the blizzard view of the GW Bridge.
UPDATE: Fort Tryon Park, at night.
Ariadne auf Naxos
Posted in art, literature & other distractions on Friday, Feb. 5, 2010
Hey, lady, there’s three giant dames standing behind you trying to give you sound advice, but you’re feeling so sorry for yourself that you’re going to settle for Bacchus on the rebound.
But seriously, if you can make it to the Met for “Ariadne auf Naxos,” by all means go see it. It’s a beauty. And Kathleen Kim’s Zerbinetta gives a way better performance than Nina Stimm’s Ariadne. She’ll make you laugh, just like she promised, and Ariadne will put you to sleep a little (just like Zerbinetta promised, too). I very much disagree with the Times’ review, particularly on the subject of Kathleen Kim and Sarah Connolly, who as far as I could hear, both outshone Nina Stimm that night. I wonder if my ears aren’t cultivated enough anymore from not hearing enough opera lately to appreciate Stimm. And if so, I don’t see what’s wrong with it. Maybe opera singers should appeal to less cultivated ears a little more.
Postcard from New York: super-ephemeral snow
Posted in postcard from new york on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010It was gone by midday. It must have had a sell by date like the fresh organic chicken I ordered from Fresh Direct. The one that said sell by [the day I received it].
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