It's the end of Harry Potter's birthday and the first dress rehearsal of TOI's new Hansel & Gretel, it's late and I am thinking about...

TOI Season VI | Hansel & Gretel in NOLA | Humperdinck N.B.s | July 2018 I'm so excited to be back "home" working with Tidewater Opera...

More Bohemian miscellany, trivia, as we prepare to open our new production of La Boheme, April 6! Puccini's librettist, Illica, like Van...

Below are my program notes for OR's imminent new production of Puccini's romantic opera. Their episodic and aphoristic style is a nod to...

April 1, 2018 | 16 Nisan 5778 | Easter | Pesach | The prime need in the Western World is to break the ice of rationalism and release the...

L2P (Listening to Paintings) | 3.17.18 | Taubman Museum of Art | Roanoke | SMW, curator & artist Below are some journal musings and...

What a whirlwind trip last week for the Romania premiere of Aaron Garber's one-act opera, Romania: Revolution 1989 in the beautiful "old...

My previous post was a photo-journal "journey to Prague" (with Mini-Mozart). Here's a follow-up. 23.XI | Thanksgiving Day | ROA Prague...

For the curious (or extremely bored), here are some images and travel journals from our recent trip to Prague. The title comes from...

Thomas Adès | The Exterminating Angel | MET HD 11.18 | Notes and quotes... __ I believe that music is a vehicle that can carry you from...

As another tribute and thank you to our fabulous OR Tosca "team," here is a new poem, in an early draft form. It's a version of Tosca's...

Tosca came and went in a whirlwind, as she always seems to do. The last time Opera Roanoke mounted Puccini's "little shocker" was in the...

Yesterday, hosted by Hollins University, a dozen of our fabulous Apprentice Artists and the "glad-she's-new-in-town" pianist Anna de...

By request, a belated sharing of the notes for my Rosenkavalier talk prior to Saturday's final MET "Live in HD" broadcast of a brilliant...

Susannah was such a memorable and meaningful experience last weekend. Our guest artists variously referred to it as a "top 3" or "top 5"...

I can't believe we open this amazing show tomorrow night, April 28. What a memorable experience this production has been. Its...

Yesterday, members of our fabulous Susannah cast - Stephanie Marx, Zach James, Toby Newman, Brooke Tolley, and Jason Nichols, accompanied...

Since it was in the news, it must be true, right?!? I'm glad our friend Mike Allen referred to Susannah that way in today's Roanoke...

The latest notes and musings on our premiere production of Susannah, just around the corner, April 28 & 30. Susannah notebooks: Staging...

Continuing a series of random, informal, anecdotal "notebook" entries for our upcoming production of Susannah, a piece whose depth and...