Music in Washington

Concert Series and Organizations:

• Washington Performing Arts Society
  
• Vocal Arts Society
  
• Freer and Sackler Galleries at the Smithsonian
  
• Phillips Collection
  
• Corcoran Gallery of Art
  
• Library of Congress
  
• National Museum of Women in the Arts
  
• The Kreeger Museum
  
• The Embassy Series
  
• The Smithsonian Institution
  

Performing Venues:

• The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
  
• Lisner Auditorium
  
• Constitution Hall
  
• Dumbarton Oaks
  
• La Maison Française (Embassy of France)
  
• Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (University of Maryland)
  
• Music Center at Strathmore Hall (North Bethesda, Maryland)
  
• Wolf Trap (Fairfax, Virginia)

Performing Groups:

• Washington National Opera
  
• Opera Theatre of Northern Virginia
  
• Virginia Opera
  
• Opera Lafayette
  
• The Summer Opera Theatre Company (Catholic University)
  
• Washington Concert Opera
  
• Opera International
  
• The National Symphony
  
• National Philharmonic
  
• Suspicious Cheese Lords
  
• Washington Bach Consort
  
• Woodley Ensemble
  
• Folger Consort
  
• Cantate Chamber Singers
  
• Cathedral Choral Society
  
• The Washington Chorus
  
• The Palestrina Choir
  
• The Master Chorale of Washington
  
• The Metropolitan Chorus
  
• Chantry

Music in Baltimore:

• Shriver Hall, Johns Hopkins University
  
• Baltimore Opera
  
• Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
  
• Ignoti Dei Opera Company

Blogville

• Adaptistration (Drew McManus)
  
• Armavirumque
  
• artblog.net
  
• art.blogging.la
  
• Artful Manager (Andrew Taylor)
  
• Big Picture (Corine Lesnes)
  
• bloggy
  
• BoingBoing
  
• Bookslut (Jessa Crispin)
  
• Chesterley
  
• David Sucher: City Comforts
  
• The Cranky Professor
  
• Cronaca
  
• Crooked Timber
  
• Danny Gregory
  
• Dave Barry
  
• D.C. in B&W (Elliot Teel)
  
• Diary of Samuel Pepys
  
• The Dressing
  
• greg.org
  
• Gregg Chadwick: Speed of Life
  
• Greg Sandow
  
• Heaven Tree
  
• hem|mungen
  
• Iconoduel
  
• James Wagner
  
• Language Hat
  
• Low Culture
  
• mediaTIC: actualité du blog et des blogs
  
• MMmusing
  
• Mysteries Abysmal (Bryant Bates Manning)
  
• Of Music and Men (Ilkka Talvi)
  
• Old Hag
  
• PostClassic (Kyle Gann)
  
• Pullquote
  
• Rake's Progress
  
• The Rambler (Tim Rutherford-Johnson)
  
• The Reading Experience
  
• Sieglinde's Diaries
  
• Studio Notebook (Carolyn Zick)
  
• Thinking About Art
  
• Tom Moody
  
• tomness (Thomas Meglioranza)
  
• Tuttle SVC (Tom Hoffman)
  
• Trrill
  
• uTopianTurtleTop
  
• Waggish
  
• Washington, DC Art News
  
• Wonkette
  
• Zeke's Gallery (Montréal)

Opera Outside of Washington

Opera in the United States:

• The Metropolitan Opera (New York)
  
• New York City Opera
  
• Glimmerglass Opera
  
• Baltimore Opera Company
  
• Houston Grand Opera
  
• San Francisco Opera
  
• Opera Theatre of St. Louis
  
• Lyric Opera of Chicago
  
• Los Angeles Opera
  
• Santa Fe Opera

Opera in Europe:

• Opéra National de Paris
  
• Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris)
  
• Opéra-Comique (Paris)
  
• Opéra de Lyon
  
• Le Théâtre du Capitole (Toulouse)
  
• Théâtre impérial de Compiègne
  
• Royal Opera House at Covent Garden
  
• Glyndebourne Opera Festival
  
• Théâtre de la Monnaie (Brussels)
  
• De Nederlandse Oper (Amsterdam)
  
• De Vlaamse Opera (Antwerp/Ghent)
  
• Bayerische Staatsoper (Munich)
  
• Deutsche Oper (Berlin)
  
• Bayreuther Festspiele (Bayreuth)
  
• Teatro alla Scala (Milan)
  
• Teatro Regio di Torino (Turin)
  
• Teatro La Fenice (Venice)
  
• Teatro di san Carlo (Naples)
  
• Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (Rome)
  
• Vienna Staatsoper
  
• Les Arts Florissants
  
• Copenhagen Opera
  
• Drottningholms Slottsteater (near Stockholm)
  
• Finnish National Opera (Helsinki)
  
• Oopera Skaala (Helsinki)
  
• Czech Opera (Prague)
  
• Hungarian State Opera (Budapest)
  
• Mariinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg)
  
• Salzburg Festival
  
• Festival d'Aix-en-Provence

Meet the Moderator

Charles T. Downey at the piano, 2003 Photo © Joe Albright, Albright Creative Imagery

Charles T. Downey
E-mail: ionarts at gmail dot com
Born near Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in the great state of Michigan. Began studying piano at the age of 15. Received Bachelor of Music in Piano at Michigan State University. Moved to Washington, D.C., to pursue graduate studies in musicology. Received M.A. and Ph.D. from The Catholic University of America, with research specialization in medieval music (M.A. thesis, "Breton Chant Notation in France and Northern Italy: A Comparative Study of Offertories in Chartres, Bibl. mun., 47 and Ivrea, Bibl. cap., LX") and French Baroque ballet and opera (dissertation, "Musical-Dramatic Works Derived from Ariosto and Tasso in the City of Paris, 1600–1800").

Lives in Washington, D.C., teaching music and art history, singing professionally with the Choir of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Moderator of Ionarts since 2003, Classical Music Contributor for DCist since 2005 (with occasional pieces on art, film, and dance), Freelance Classical Music Critic for the Washington Post since 2008.


SELECTED RECENT JOURNALISTIC PIECES
'Lucretia': Death and Depravity, Well Sung (Washington Post, July 13, 2009)

Alan Curtis Signs Almost Definitive 'Alcina' (Ionarts, July 3, 2009)

Summer Opera: Wolf Trap's Coozey 'Così' (Ionarts, July 2, 2009)

Out of Frame: 'Tetro' (Ionarts, June 19, 2009)

Hammering the Clavier: Valentina Lisitsa (Washington Post, May 22, 2009)

Poor Boy Marries Rich Girl: Siegfried's American Dream (Ionarts, May 4, 2009)

Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra, High Octane (Ionarts, April 9, 2009)

Mahler 9 with Marin Alsop (Ionarts, April 8, 2009)

New Work by Jessica Krash at NGA (Ionarts, March 20, 2009)

Revisiting the Department of the Interior (DCist, March 19, 2009)

Quatuor Ébène, Cool as Ebony (DCist, March 14, 2009)

A Zen Evening at the Freer (DCist, March 12, 2009)

Paying Homage to Lincoln in Song (Washington Post, March 10, 2009)

Mobtown Modern Presents 'Sequenzas' at Baltimore's Contemporary Museum (Washington Post, March 5, 2009)

Kissin Triumphant in Prokofiev and Chopin (Ionarts, March 4, 2009)

Martin Bruns and the Traces of Hafiz (Ionarts, February 27, 2009)

Kurtágs Play Kurtág at the Library of Congress (Ionarts, February 10, 2009)

Mark Morris Makes Mozart Dance (DCist, February 2, 2009)

Yevgeny Sudbin's Spring Torrents (Ionarts, January 26, 2009)

Mariinsky Ballet Tilts at Windmills (DCist, January 14, 2009)

Out of Frame: 'Doubt' (Ionarts, December 29, 2008)

"Angeschliffen," trans. Albrecht Thiemann (Opernwelt, December 12, 2008)

Gabriela Montero Makes It Up (Ionarts, December 8, 2008)

'Norma' in Baltimore (Ionarts, November 21, 2008)

Alexandre Tharaud (Washington Post, October 27, 2008)

Enough Bang to Make You Whimper (Ionarts, October 6, 2008)

Bizet's 'Pearl,' Dusted Off (Washington Post, September 22, 2008)

Ludus Danielis (Ionarts, August 27, 2008)

Out of Frame: 'Elegy' (Ionarts, August 22, 2008)

Ariadne Marooned at Wolf Trap (Ionarts, August 18, 2008)

My Jerry Springer Moment (Ionarts, August 11, 2008)

Ionarts in Santa Fe: 'Adriana Mater' (Ionarts, July 30, 2008)

NSO & Vladimir Ashkenazy, Staying True to Sibelius (Washington Post, May 30, 2008)

Adès Leads the BSO (Ionarts, May 19, 2008)

Opera on DVD: 'Alice in Wonderland' (Ionarts, May 14, 2008)

Itzhak Perlman (Washington Post, May 6, 2008)


SCHOLARLY BOOKS AND ARTICLES
Ballet du Roy, ou de la Délivrance de Renault, Danced by the King of France on January 29, 1617. Versailles: Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, forthcoming.

With Greer Garden et al. Essays on the Ballet de Renault. Paris: Malaga Press, forthcoming.

With Keith Fleming†. "Some Multiple-Melody Communions with Texts from the Gospels." Études grégoriennes 33 (2005), 5–74.

"Ad imaginem suam: Regional Chant Variants and the Origins of the Jeu d'Adam." Comparative Drama 36 (2003): 359–90.

"The Breton Notation in Ivrea LX." Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 3 (1998): 187–93.

Report on "Chant and Palaeography" session. In Musicology and Sister Disciplines, Past, Present, Future: Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of the International Musicological Society, London, 1997, edited by David Greer (Part 3, "Reports on Study Sessions"). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

An Utrecht Antiphoner: Utrecht, Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit 406 (3.J.7). Printouts from an Index in Machine-Readable Form: A CANTUS Index. Ed. Ruth Steiner. Musicological Studies, no. LV/6. Ottawa: The Institute of Mediaeval Music, 1997.

With Barbara Haggh, et al. Two Cambrai Antiphoners: Cambrai, Médiathèque municipale, 38 and Impr. XVI C 4. Printouts from Two Indices in Machine-Readable Form: A CANTUS Index. Musicological Studies, LV/4. Ottawa: The Institute of Mediaeval Music, 1995.

With Keith Glaeske. "Text and Music for the Lamentations: A Comparison of Settings in Cambrai XVI and Graz 29." Medieval Perspectives 10 (1995): 86–100.


PAPERS PRESENTED
"The Ballet de la délivrance de Renault as a Document of French Courtly Life." Meeting of American Musicological Society, Capital Chapter, 2 October 2004.

"The Ballet de la délivrance de Renault in history: participants, contemporary accounts." Eleventh Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, Manchester, England, 15 July 2004.

"Dancing or Singing with One Bare Foot: A Magic Ritual on the French Stage." Symposium on Opera, Catholic University of America, Benjamin T. Rome School of Music, 25 February 1999.

"The Two Versions of the Ballet de la Délivrance de Renault." The American Musicological Society, National Meeting (Phoenix, Arizona), 1 November 1997.

"The Breton Notation in Ivrea LX." The International Musicological Society, Annual Meeting, Study Group "Cantus Planus," as part of the session "Chant and Paleography" (London, England), 18 August 1997.

"Let Him Kiss Me with the Kiss of His Mouth: Late Votive Antiphons in Honor of the Virgin Mary." The 31st International Congress on Medieval Studies (Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan), 9 May 1996.

With Keith Glaeske. "Text and Music for the Lamentations: A Comparison of Settings in Cambrai XVI and Graz 29." Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association (Arlington, Virginia), November, 1994.

"J. S. Bach's Christmas Cantata Cycle of 1725–26: A Model for the Christmas Oratorio?" Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Capital Chapter (Richmond, Virginia), April, 1993.


BOOK REVIEWS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Review of Esther (Tragédie de Jean Racine), edited by Anne Piéjus. In Music & Letters 87 (2006): 494–496.

Review of Jean-Paul C. Montagnier, Charles-Hubert Gervais: un musicien au service du Régent et de Louis XV (Paris: CNRS, 2001). In Music & Letters 84 (2003): 485–88.

Review of Catherine Massip, L'art de bien chanter: Michel Lambert (1610–1696) (Paris: Société Française de Musicologie, 1999). In Music & Letters 83 (2002): 449–53.

Review of John S. Powell, Music and Theatre in France, 1600–1680, Oxford Monographs on Music (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000). In Music & Letters 82 (2001): 616–19.

Program notes for recording, I Sing of a Maiden: A Mosaic of Motets to the Virgin Mary, Choir of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Gothic Records G 49111 (2000).

Review of Andrew Hughes, Late Medieval Liturgical Offices (Toronto, 1994). In Plainsong and Medieval Music 4 (1995): 203–208.

Contributed computerized indices to offerings of Project CANTUS (some in collaboration with other scholars):

· Valenciennes, Bibliothèque municipale, 114 · Monza, Biblioteca capitolare, 15/79 · Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 1090 · Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, 611 (with Mette Kjaergaard) · Utrecht, Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit, 406 (3.J.7) · Tours, Bibliothèque municipale, 149 · Gottschalk Antiphonary (with Lisa Fagin Davis) · Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 15181 and lat. 15182 (with Susan Kidwell)

· Vorau, Stiftsbibliothek, 287 (29) · Graz, Universitätsbibliothek, 29 and 30 · Arras, Bibliothèque municipale, 465 (893) · Florence, Arcivescovado, s.c. · Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Conv. sopp. 560 · Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, n.a. lat. 1535 · Cambrai, Médiathèque municipale, Impr. XVI C 4 (with Barbara Haggh et al.) · Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Cappella Sistina 27

Meet JFL

jfl

Munich-born, raised just south of it, jfl quickly fell in love with music. At age four his father gave him the Bach Passions on tape, meticulously recorded from the radio. Church seemed a fine place to use the voice; at just over four the accordion was added to these musical activities. It didn't lead to much, but it probably was quite a sight to see a big head, two hands barely clasping the sides of the big, red Hohner... two feet dangling beneath. That he could read notes before he could read letters lent (eventually disappointed) hope to the family that he might follow in the footsteps of his harpsichordist Uncle whose vinyls of Scarlatti he grew up on.

The first concert attended, a matinee at the Munich Staatsoper of Bruckner (9th Symphony) and Mozart (K.595) may have left a subconscious impression... although at the time he was primarily fascinated how half the orchestra could leave at intermission and they'd still make beautiful music.

He took up the recorder at five and the piano at six, the two only instruments in which he should gain at least a decent amount of proficiency. In fourth grade the piano teacher - who lived upstairs - decided that he should try out for the Regensburger Domspatzen. Once accepted (only the 14th or so non-Catholic Domspatz at the time), said teacher took him to his first opera, Feuersnot at the Staatsoper. (Heinz Fricke conducted then, as he told me recently. I was too little to remember or care.) The choir in Regensburg was wonderful as far as the singing was concerned, but apart from quitting the recorder since there were no teachers at the Regensburger Domspatzen pre-school in Pielenhofen, the pianistic skills plummeted due to laziness and lack of supervision. Sadly, the combined forces of the boarding school environment, Latin, and Math all but ended his active musical pursuits once he successfully ran away from the school.

This is his favorite recording. J.S.Bach, Concertos italiens, Alexandre Tharaud Harmonia Mundi

International affairs and political philosophy were on the agenda in college and graduate school. In 2002 the not-for-profit Center for International Relations was founded, half a year later the International Affairs Forum - CIR's on-line journal - was running. Contributes to ionarts since November 2003 (with the first poor effort published in December) - and since then reviewing concerts and classical CDs, giving ionarts a distinctly more music-focused tone. A short stint at the Washington Post added an air of legitimacy to his criticism - though the harpsichord-uncle still insisted (rightly, for European standards) that he was "not qualified." Before its demise, he was interviewing musicians for WGMS 103.5's "Classical Conversations." From 2007 until 2011 he was the Classical Critic-at-Large for WETA 90.9. jfl occasionally writes or has written for Listen Magazine, Opera, Opera Now, Opera Canada, American Record Guide, Fanfare Magazine, Chamber Music America, Musical America et al. Sometimes he squeezes a bit of culture into the pages of Forbes.com (The Noise Police, Gergiev's Propaganda). For his article on Hans Rott ("Madness, Thievery and a Train Full of Dynamite: The Greatest Symphonist Who Never Was") published by Listen Magazine, he won a 2012 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award.

He is a musical omnivore, listening with varying delight to anything from Guillaume de Machaut to Jörg Widmann. Bruckner ("a love"), Haydn, and Bach are musical gods - and he has a particular penchant for less famous, unknown or obscure composers; especially late, conservative Romantics. (Richard & Eduard Franck, J. G. Rheinberger, Hans Rott, Egon Wellesz, Hans Gàl, Eric(h) Zeisl etc.) His cantankerous, unenlightened quarreling with Verdi can rankle the most peace-loving Nabucco-enthusiast. He is happy to (try to) answer any and all questions about Mahler ("an addiction"), or pontificate about favorite recordings (beyond the above) if so encouraged.

All views are his own. Decidedly not his employers'.

Meet Michael Lodico

Michael Lodico
Michael_Lodicojr at yahoo dot com
Michael Lodico, born in 1981 and a native of Western North Carolina, began studying the piano at the age of six and organ at the age of 13. Lodico received a Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he studied the organ with John Weaver and Alan Morrison, harpsichord with Lionel Party, improvisation with Matthew Glandorf, and the piano with Meng Cheih-Liu and Susan Starr. He studied abroad as a Netherlands-America Foundation/Fulbright Scholar to the Netherlands and obtained a Master’s degree in music, studying the organ under Jacques van Oortmerssen at the Amsterdam Conservatory.

In the summer of 2006, Lodico was appointed Director of Music of Wye Parish, Maryland, and Director of Choral Music at Saint Anselm’s Abbey School in Washington, D.C. He has participated in festivals and workshops in Canada, England, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and the United States, and completed a concert tour playing recitals at English and Scottish cathedrals. Additionally, Lodico is a music critic with the webzine/blog Ionarts, regularly covering the National Symphony and the Baltimore Symphony. He has also covered opera festivals in Aix-en-Provence, France, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the Brugge/Bruges Early Music Festival in Belgium.

In May 2008, Lodico was elected to the Executive Board of the District of Columbia Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, and in October 2008 began working in the coordinate music department of the St. Alban’s School and National Cathedral School. He also serves as Associate Choirmaster and Organist at St. John's, Lafayette Square. Lodico enjoys swimming and traveling.

Paris Reading Project

What started as a theme in my reading has become an obsession. This is a list of books, mostly fiction, set in the city of Paris, through which I am slowly making my way. If you have any ideas of books not on this list that need to be on it, especially examples of world literature with which I am probably not familiar, e-mail them to me (ionarts at gmail dot com) for inclusion.

Available from Amazon: André Breton, Nadja (1960) Daniel Pennac, The Fairy Gunmother (La fée carabine, 1987) Louis Aragon, Le Paysan de Paris (1926) (see post on April 24, 2004) Edith Wharton, Custom of the Country (1913) Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926) Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (1964) F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night (1934) Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1932) Gertrude Stein, Paris France (1940)

In French:

• Œuvres de François Villon (1431–1463), edited by Clément Marot
  
• Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris, 1405-1449
  
• Alexandre Dumas père, The Man in the Iron Mask (1846)
  
• Alexandre Dumas père, The Count of Monte Cristo
  
• Alexandre Dumas père, The Three Musketeers
  
• Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias [Camille]
  
• Henri Mürger, Scènes de la Vie de Bohème (1847-49)
  
• Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal (1861 ed. in French)
  
• Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil
  
• Charles Baudelaire, Petits poèmes en prose (Spleen de Paris)
  
• Charles Baudelaire, Curiosités esthétiques: L'art romantique
  
• Stendhal, Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black)
  
• Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris (1831)
  
• Abbé Prévost (Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles), Manon Lescaut
  
• Honoré de Balzac, An Episode under the Terror
  
• Honoré de Balzac, Bureaucracy
  
• Honoré de Balzac, Catherine de Medici
  
• Honoré de Balzac, A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
  
• Honoré de Balzac, Le Père Goriot
  
• Guy de Maupassant, La parure et autres contes parisiens
  
• Gérard de Nerval, Nuits d'octobre
  
• Gérard de Nerval, Promenades et souvenirs
  
• Gérard de Nerval, Les filles du feu
  
• Eugène Süe, Les Mystères de Paris
  
• Jules Verne, Paris in the Twentieth Century (1863)
  
• Marcel Proust, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu
  
• Guillaume Apollinaire, Le flâneur des deux rives
  
• Françoise Sagan, Chagrin de Passage
  
• Marguerite Duras, La pluie d'été
  
• Daniel Pennac, The Scapegoat, Monsieur Malaussène, Passion Fruit, The Fairy Gunmother, Write to Kill, Comme un roman, translated by Ian Monk (see post from August 17, 2003)

In English:

• Memorandums of a Residence in France in the Winter of 1815-16
  
• Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
  
• Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution (1837)
  
• George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)
  
• James Fenimore Cooper, A Residence in France (1836)
  
• Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress (1869)
  
• Henry James, The Ambassadors (1903)
  
• Henry James, The American (1877)
  
• Henry James, A Little Tour in France (1884)
  
• Henry James, Madame de Mauves (1874) (or Project Gutenberg text)
  
• Edith Wharton, Fighting France
  
• Edith Wharton, A Son at the Front (1923)
  
• Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (c. 1765-1768)
  
• Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books: Victor Hugo's Romances
  
• Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books: François Villon, Student, Poet, and Housebreaker
  
• Sinclair Lewis, Dodsworth (1929)
  
• Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue
  
• Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Roget
  
• Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kiliminjaro (1938)
  
• Gore Vidal, The Judgment of Paris (1952)
  
• Mary McCarthy, Birds of America (1971)
  
• Irwin Shaw, Paris! Paris!
  
• Janet Flanner, Paris Journal (1972)
  
• Henry Miller, Under the Roofs of Paris (Opus Pistorum), essentially pornography for which Miller was paid $1/page and written when he was in need of money back in California
  
• Brassaï, Conversations With Picasso
  
• Brassaï, The Secret Paris of the '30s
  
• Brassaï, Paris By Night
  
• Wambly Bald, On the Left Bank 1929-1933
  
• Ned Rorem, The Paris Diary
  
• Edmund White, The Farewell Symphony
  
• Edmund White, The Married Man
  
• Mavis Gallant, Paris Diary (1992, published in The New Yorker, December 24/31, 2001)
  
• Mavis Gallant, Paris Stories
  
• Adam Gopnik, Paris to the Moon
  
• Paris in Mind, edited by Jennifer Lee, an anthology of 29 excerpts of novels, memoirs, and so on relating to American experiences in Paris
  
• Irene Nemirovsky, Suite française
  
• Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah's Key
  
• Diane Johnson, Le Divorce (also Le Mariage and L'Affaire)

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (1934)	Henry Miller, Quiet Days in Clichy (1940/56) (see post on December 27, 2004)	The Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931–32)
James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room (1956)	A. J. Liebling, Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris (1962)	Edmund White, The Flaneur (2001)
Jack Kerouac, Satori in Paris (1966)	Adam Gopnik, Paris to the Moon (2000)

Ionarts on Proust

Your Proust Excerpt for Today (September 15, 2003) Your Weekly Proust 2 (October 7, 2003) Your Proust Excerpt for Today (November 3, 2003) La Juive in Proust (November 16, 2003) La Juive and, Once Again, Proust (December 15, 2003) Support for Reading Proust (December 20, 2003) Evocation of a Royalist Past (December 23, 2003) Proust and Homosexuality (December 29, 2003) Elstir and the Hawthorn (January 3, 2004) Novelty and the Arts (January 20, 2004) Marcel the Judge (January 27, 2004) Music in Proust (March 20, 2004) Reading Proust and Remembering Lost Time (May 9, 2004)

Available from Amazon:
Vol. 1, Swann's Way	Vol. 2, Within a Budding Grove
Vol. 3, The Guermantes Way	Vol. 4, Sodom and Gomorrah
Vol. 5, The Captive, & Vol. 6, The Fugitive	Vol. 7, Time Regained

Ionarts Film Reviews

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (October 26, 2003) Les Compères (November 4, 2003) Shattered Glass (November 7, 2003) The Fog of War (January 6, 2004) Big Fish (January 17, 2004) In the Cut (February 21, 2004) Destino (February 26, 2004) Les Triplettes de Belleville (March 15, 2004) The Battle of Algiers (March 19, 2004) Monsieur Ibrahim (March 27, 2004) Film Noir (April 9, 2004) The Passion of the Christ (April 13, 2004) Le Placard (April 26, 2004) The Death of Klinghoffer (May 2, 2004) Kill Bill (May 4, 2004) Fahrenheit 9/11 (July 16, 2004) Opera on DVD (September 15, 2004)

Ionarts on Opera

Operas Reviewed: Adams · Doctor Atomic, San Francisco Opera (October 4, 2005) Adès · The Tempest, Santa Fe Opera (July 31, 2006) Bartók · Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, Baltimore Symphony (November 22, 2005) · Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Washington National Opera (September 23, 2006) Bellini · La Sonnambula, Baltimore Opera (November 14, 2005) Bizet · Carmen, Santa Fe Opera (August 2, 2006) Britten · Albert Herring, Catholic University Opera Theater (March 19, 2005) · Billy Budd, Washington National Opera (September 29, 2004) · Gloriana, Opera Theater of St. Louis (June 28, 2005) · Peter Grimes, Santa Fe Opera (July 24, 2005) · The Turn of the Screw, Châteauville Foundation (May 25, 2006) Burrs, Leslie Savoy · Vanqui, concert performance (March 9, 2006) Carter, Elliott · What Next?, Tanglewood Festival (June 28, 2006) Cavalli · La Didone, Ignoti Dei Opera (June 18, 2006) Cimarosa · Il Matrimonio Segreto, University of Maryland Opera Studio (April 28, 2006) Donizetti · L'Elisir d'Amore, Washington National Opera (April 3, 2006) · La Fille du Régiment, Opera Bel Cantanti (October 18, 2005) Gershwin · Porgy and Bess, Washington National Opera (November 5, 2005) Giordano · Andrea Chénier, Washington National Opera (September 24, 2004) Golijov · Ainadamar, Santa Fe Opera (August 2, 2005) Gounod · Roméo et Juliette, Wolf Trap Opera, concert performance (July 25, 2006) Heggie · Dead Man Walking, Baltimore Opera (March 14, 2006) Hindemith · Hin und zurück, Tanglewood Festival (July 28, 2006) Krása, Hans · Brundibár, Washington National Opera (August 14, 2005) Lully · Acis et Galatée, Opera Lafayette, concert performance (February 22, 2005) Mascagni · Cavalleria Rusticana, Washington Concert Opera (November 1, 2005) Massenet · Cendrillon, Santa Fe Opera (August 5, 2006) · Cendrillon, Washington Summer Opera (June 16, 2005) · Esclarmonde, Washington Concert Opera (April 10, 2005) Monk, Meredith · Impermanence, Meredith Monk Ensemble (February 26, 2006) Mozart · The Abduction from the Seraglio, National Symphony Orchestra, concert performance (January 27, 2006) · La Clemenza di Tito, Washington National Opera (May 9, 2006) · Così Fan Tutte, Opera Theater of Northern Virginia (March 4, 2006) · Idomeneo, Opera Lafayette, concert performance (June 4, 2006) · Lucio Silla, Santa Fe Opera (July 21, 2005) · The Magic Flute, Santa Fe Opera (August 1, 2006) · The Magic Flute, Salzburg Marionnettes (November 9, 2005) · Il Rè Pastore, Orchestre des Folies Françoises, concert performance (March 26, 2006) Mussorgsky · Boris Godunov, Kirov Opera (January 22, 2005) Offenbach · Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Baltimore Opera (May 2, 2005) Picker, Tobias · An American Tragedy, Met broadcast (December 24, 2005) Poulenc · Dialogues des Carmélites, Opera International (August 6, 2004) Puccini · La Bohème, Wolf Trap Opera (August 2, 2004) · Gianni Schicchi, Washington National Opera (September 23, 2006) · Madama Butterfly, Washington National Opera (November 13, 2006) · Il Tabarro, Washington Concert Opera (November 1, 2005) · Tosca, Washington National Opera (May 15, 2005) · Turandot, Kirov Opera (February 21, 2006) Rossini · The Barber of Seville, Santa Fe Opera (July 23, 2005) · La Cenerentola, Wolf Trap Opera (August 21, 2005) · Le Comte Ory, Wolf Trap Opera Company (July 22, 2006) · L'Italiana in Algeri, Washington National Opera (May 16, 2006) · Tancredi, Washington Concert Opera (April 6, 2006) · Rossini, Il Viaggio a Reims, Mariinsky Theater (May 31, 2006) Saariaho, Kaija · Adriana Mater, radio broadcast (July 16, 2006) Sacchini, Antonio · Œdipe à Colone, Opera Lafayette, concert performance (May 15, 2005) Saint-Saëns · Samson et Dalila, Washington National Opera (May 18, 2005) Simpson, Andrew · The Furies, Catholic University (February 13, 2006) Strauss, J. · Die Fledermaus, Washington National Opera (April 14, 2004) Strauss, R. · Capriccio, Opéra national de Paris (July 11, 2004) · Daphne, concert performance with Renée Fleming (October 20, 2005) · Salome, Santa Fe Opera (August 6, 2006) Stravinsky · Mavra, Tanglewood Festival (July 28, 2006) · Le Rossignol, film version on NPR (December 22, 2005) Tchaikovsky · Iolanta, Opera Bel Cantanti (June 9, 2006) · The Maid of Orleans, Washington National Opera (April 7, 2005) Telemann · Orpheus, Wolf Trap Opera (June 18, 2006) Verdi · Luisa Miller, Washington Concert Opera (June 9, 2005) · Il Trovatore, Washington National Opera (October 25, 2004) · I Vespri Siciliani, Washington National Opera (September 29, 2005) Wagner · Parsifal, Kirov Opera (February 23, 2006) · Das Rheingold, Washington National Opera (April 1, 2006) · Das Rheingold, Opera Theater of Pittsburgh (July 16, 2005) · Die Walküre, Opera Theater of Pittsburgh (July 19, 2005) · Die Walküre, Washington National Opera (April 14, 2004) · Die Walküre, National Symphony Orchestra (Act III, concert performance) (January 13, 2006) Wheeler, Scott · Democracy, Washington National Opera (January 29, 2005) All Posts: Rossini, Il Viaggio a Reims, Mariinsky Theater (May 31, 2006) Bartók, Duke Bluebeard's Castle and Schoenberg, Erwartung, Covent Garden (May 30, 2006) Summer Opera: "Orfeo" with Le Concert d’Astrée (May 29, 2006) Summer Opera: Fielding's "Tom Thumb" (May 28, 2006) Domingo-Cafritz Young Artists at Renwick Gallery (May 28, 2006) Britten, The Turn of the Screw, Châteauville Foundation (May 25, 2006) Wagner, Parsifal, P. Domingo, C. Thielemann (May 25, 2006) Met Gala on NPR/PBS (May 18, 2006) Rossini, L'Italiana in Algeri, Washington National Opera (May 16, 2006) Opera in the Summer 2006 (May 15, 2006) Juan Diego Flórez, Sentimiento Latino (May 11, 2006) Mozart, La Clemenza di Tito, Washington National Opera (May 9, 2006) Opera on DVD: La Clemenza di Tito (May 9, 2006) Britten, The Turn of the Screw, Mariinsky Theater (May 2, 2006) Cimarosa, Il Matrimonio Segreto, Maryland Opera Studio (April 28, 2006) Opera on DVD: Dialogues des Carmélites (April 17, 2006) Esa-Pekka Salonen on Adriana Mater (April 15, 2006) Anna Netrebko, La Traviata and Sempre Libera (April 14, 2006) Rossini, Tancredi, Washington Concert Opera (April 6, 2006) Kaija Saariaho, Adriana Mater (April 5, 2006) Donizetti, L'Elisir d'Amore, Washington National Opera (April 3, 2006) Schubert, Fierrabras, Théâtre du Châtelet (April 3, 2006) Das Rheingold, Washington National Opera (April 1, 2006) Kaija Saariaho, L'Amour de Loin, DVD (March 30, 2006) American Ring, Washington National Opera (March 27, 2006) Luigi Zaninelli, Snow White (March 27, 2006) Das Rheingold, Washington National Opera (March 26, 2006) Mozart, Il Rè Pastore, Sandrine Piau, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (March 26, 2006) Marriage of Figaro in Paris (March 23, 2006) Washington National Opera 50th Anniversary Gala (March 21, 2006) Next Year at Paris Opera (March 20, 2006) Gounod's Polyeucte (March 17, 2006) Dead Man Walking, Baltimore Opera (March 14, 2006) Vanqui, Clarice Smith Center (March 9, 2006) Mazeppa at the Met (March 9, 2006) Next Season at the Châtelet (March 7, 2006) Heggie, Dead Man Walking, Recording (March 6, 2006) Mozart, Così Fan Tutte, Opera Theater of Northern Virginia (March 4, 2006) Meredith Monk, Impermanence (February 26, 2006) Martinů's Juliette in Paris (February 25, 2006) Wagner, Parsifal, Kirov Opera (February 23, 2006) Puccini, Turandot, Kirov Opera (February 21, 2006) Scarlatti, Il Primo Omicidio, in Lyon (February 20, 2006) Der Rosenkavalier in Chicago (February 18, 2006) Mazeppa in Lyon (February 16, 2006) Destouches, Callirhoé, Le Concert Spirituel (February 14, 2006) Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Opera Lafayette (February 13, 2006) Andrew Simpson, The Furies (February 13, 2006) New Opera Notes (February 11, 2006) Alan Held at Wolf Trap (February 5, 2006) Daniel Ginsberg Takes Down Il Divo (February 5, 2006) Opera on DVD: Chabrier's L'Etoile (February 1, 2006) Philidor's Tom Jones in Lausanne (January 29, 2006) Handel, Radamisto, Il Complesso Barocco (January 28, 2006) Abduction from the Seraglio, National Symphony Orchestra (January 27, 2006) Sandrine Piau, Handel Arias (January 26, 2006) Pascal Dusapin's New Faust (January 25, 2006) Jennifer Check, Young Concert Artists (January 24, 2006) Jean Reno Directs Puccini (January 21, 2006) Dmitri Hvorostovsky at the Kennedy Center (January 20, 2006) Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Handel Arias (January 20, 2006) Prokofiev, Love for Three Oranges, in Paris (January 18, 2006) Birgit Nilsson on Disc (January 15, 2006) Zaninelli, Snow White, in Florence (January 14, 2006) Die Walküre, Act I, National Symphony (January 13, 2006) Smetana, Bartered Bride, in London (January 13, 2006) Birgit Nilsson Rides to Valhalla (January 12, 2006) Portland Opera, Rape of Lucretia (January 12, 2006) Rameau's Dardanus, Pinchgut Opera (January 10, 2006) Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, Jean-Marie Leclair's Scylla et Glaucus (1746) (January 4, 2006) Francesca Zambello's American Ring, Washington National Opera (January 2, 2006) Opera Preview 2006 (December 31, 2005) Listening to An American Tragedy (December 24, 2005) Stravinsky, Le Rossignol, film by Christian Chauvet, with Natalie Dessay (December 22, 2005) Opera Lafayette, La Maison Française, Opera Excerpts by Melani, Charpentier (December 19, 2005) Mariinsky Young Singers in Paris (December 14, 2005) 2006-2007 Season, Washington National Opera, Part 2 (December 9, 2005) 2006-2007 Season, Washington National Opera (December 8, 2005) Tobias Picker, An American Tragedy, Met Premiere (December 7, 2005) Bryn Terfel Taking Year Off, Domingo as Parsifal in Los Angeles, Kenneth Branagh to Film Magic Flute (December 6, 2005) Enescu, Oedipe (December 3, 2005) Shostakovich, The Nose in Paris (December 3, 2005) Offenbach Festival in Lyon (December 2, 2005) Opera on DVD: Massenet's Thaïs (November 29, 2005) Rachel Portman, The Little Prince (November 26, 2005) Andreas Scholl, Senesino Live (November 23, 2005) Béla Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, Baltimore Symphony (November 22, 2005) Tippett's Midsummer Marriage, Lyric Opera of Chicago (November 21, 2005) Andreas Scholl, Arias for Senesino (November 21, 2005) Chabrier, L'Etoile (November 19, 2005) Tippett's Midsummer Marriage, Covent Garden (November 16, 2005) La Sonnambula, Baltimore Opera (November 14, 2005) Tamerlano-Alcina Double Bill in Paris (November 11, 2005) Salzburg Marionnettes, Magic Flute (November 9, 2005) Mini-Critic Goes to Porgy and Bess (November 6, 2005) Porgy and Bess, Washington National Opera (November 5, 2005) Richard Rodney Bennett, The Mines of Sulphur (November 4, 2005) Washington Concert Opera, Il Tabarro and Cavalleria Rusticana (November 1, 2005) The Châtelet Ring, Part 2, Robert Wilson (October 31, 2005) Cecilia Bartoli at the Kennedy Center (October 28, 2005) New Operas in the News (October 26, 2005) The Châtelet Ring, Part 1, Robert Wilson (October 25, 2005) Russian National Orchestra: Gordon Getty, Fall of the House of Usher (October 24, 2005) Strauss's Daphne, with Renée Fleming (October 20, 2005) Opera Bel Cantanti, La Fille du Régiment (October 18, 2005) Thyeste in Brussels (October 13, 2005) Dessay Shines in First Mélisande (October 13, 2005) Singers in the News (October 12, 2005) Opera on DVD: The Beggar's Opera (October 10, 2005) Isabel Mundry, Ein Atemzug — Die Odyssee in Berlin (October 7, 2005) Cecilia Bartoli, Opera Proibita (October 6, 2005) Hindemith's Cardillac in Paris (October 5, 2005) Doctor Atomic (October 4, 2005) Covent Garden, Maskarade (October 3, 2005) Opera Lafayette at Hillwood (October 2, 2005) Washington National Opera, Trilogy (October 1, 2005) Washington National Opera, I Vespri Siciliani (September 29, 2005) Garry Marshall's Grande-Duchesse (September 29, 2005) Countdown to Doctor Atomic (September 28, 2005) Hans Werner Henze's L'Upupa (September 26, 2005) The Chéreau Ring Cycle — Götterdämmerung (September 21, 2005) Renée Fleming, Sacred Songs (September 19, 2005) The Chéreau Ring Cycle — Siegfried (September 15, 2005) The Chéreau Ring Cycle — Die Walküre (September 14, 2005) Philip Glass, Waiting for the Barbarians (September 14, 2005) Dvořák's Rusalka (September 13, 2005) New Direction at the Opéra-Comique (September 12, 2005) The Chéreau Ring Cycle — Das Rheingold (September 7, 2005) Boulez Comes down from the Green Hill for Good (September 5, 2005) The Chéreau Ring Cycle - The Making of... (September 2, 2005) Summer Opera: Death of Klinghoffer (September 1, 2005) Callas's Jewels (August 27, 2005) Opera Preview, September 2005 (August 24, 2005) Summer Opera: Undertow (August 23, 2005) Summer Opera: The Tender Land at Bard (August 22, 2005) Summer Opera: La Cenerentola at Wolf Trap (August 21, 2005) Charles Mackerras at 80 (August 20, 2005) Summer Opera: Britten's Curlew River (August 20, 2005) Summer Opera: Blitzstein's Regina at Bard (August 18, 2005) Summer Opera: Rameau's Zoroastre in Drottningholm (August 17, 2005) Opera Preview, 2005–2006 (August 15, 2005) Summer Opera: The Ring in Seattle (August 15, 2005) Summer Opera: Mini-Critic Hears Brundibár (August 14, 2005) Summer Opera: Paul Bunyan (August 12, 2005) Summer Opera: Death in Venice at Glimmerglass (August 11, 2005) Saving the Drottningholm Court Theater (August 10, 2005) Dessay and Solfege (August 9, 2005) Summer Opera: Schreker's Die Gezeichneten (August 8, 2005) Summer Opera: Mattheson's Boris Goudenow (August 5, 2005) Summer Opera: Vanessa (August 3, 2005) Summer Opera: Ainadamar in Santa Fe (August 2, 2005) Summer Opera: La Bohème in Orange (August 1, 2005) News from Bayreuth (July 31, 2005) Summer Opera: Danielpour's Margaret Garner (July 28, 2005) Summer Opera: Sallinen's The Horseman (July 27, 2005) Summer Opera: Julie in Aix-en-Provence (July 26, 2005) Oh, Bwoonhilda, You're So Wovewy (July 25, 2005) Summer Opera: Lully's Isis (July 25, 2005) Summer Opera: Peter Grimes in Santa Fe (July 24, 2005) Summer Opera: Barber of Seville in Santa Fe (July 23, 2005) Ionarts at Santa Fe Opera (July 23, 2005) Summer Opera: Henze's L'Upupa (July 22, 2005) Summer Opera: Lucio Silla in Santa Fe (July 21, 2005) Summer Opera: The Ring in Pittsburgh (Part 2) (July 19, 2005) Summer Opera: The Ring in Pittsburgh (Part 1) (July 16, 2005) Summer Opera: J. C. Bach's Temistocle (July 13, 2005) Operas on Archiv (July 12, 2005) Summer Opera: Tristan in St. Petersburg (July 10, 2005) Summer Opera: Cherubini's Medea (July 5, 2005) Nicolas Joel Angling to Go to Paris? (July 3, 2005) Summer Opera: Gloriana in St. Louis (June 28, 2005) Do You Love Wagner? (June 27, 2005) Summer Opera: Elektra in Paris (June 22, 2005) Summer Opera: Die Frau ohne Schatten (June 21, 2005) Summer Opera: Love for Three Oranges (June 19, 2005) More Opera in the Summer (June 17, 2005) Summer Opera: Massenet's Cendrillon (June 16, 2005) Summer Opera: Braunfels and Grétry (June 12, 2005) Summer Opera: Respighi in Spoleto (June 11, 2005) Mi Chiamo Luisa Miller (June 10, 2005) Washington Concert Opera (June 9, 2005) Opera in the Summer 2005 (June 2, 2005) La Dessay Sings Again (June 1, 2005) Opera on DVD: Vivaldi's Orlando furioso (May 31, 2005) New Opera Houses (May 29, 2005) Turandot in the Stade de France (May 28, 2005) More on Janáček Operas in France (May 27, 2005) Glyndebourne Watch (May 24, 2005) Operetta Evening at the Austrian Embassy (May 22, 2005) Cavalli Comes Back in Munich (May 21, 2005) Makropoulos Affair in Lyon (May 20, 2005) Samson et Dalila at Washington National Opera (May 18, 2005) Shakespeare Opera Excerpts at Renwick Gallery (May 17, 2005) Olga Borodina (May 16, 2005) Sacchini's Œdipe à Colone (May 15, 2005) I Toschi (May 15, 2005) A Night at the Opera (May 5, 2005) Comédies-Ballets in Paris (May 5, 2005) Tales of Hoffmann in Baltimore (May 2, 2005) New Recording of Vivaldi's Bajazet (April 19, 2005) Tristan and Frontal Nudity (April 15, 2005) Opera in Russia (April 13, 2005) Esclarmonde, Part 2 (April 12, 2005) Tristan Watch in Paris (April 12, 2005) Massenet's Esclarmonde with Washington Concert Opera (April 10, 2005) Joan of Arc, Schiller, Russian, Tchaikovsky (April 7, 2005) Ioanna d'Arcova at Washington National Opera (Apri 2, 2005) La Freni: She's Got It Maid! (March 30, 2005) DG Originals: A Review (March 29, 2005) New Opera in Brussels: Julie (March 24, 2005) Albert Herring at Catholic University Opera Theatre (March 19, 2005) New Opera about Gertrude Stein (March 17, 2005) Nabucco on the Met Broadcast (March 13, 2005) Interviews with Teresa Berganza (March 9, 2005) Gergiev Conducts Otello in Paris (March 8, 2005) Renée Fleming at the Kennedy Center (February 25, 2005) Tristan in Geneva (February 23, 2005) A Singer to Watch: Sarah Connolly (February 23, 2005) Lully's Acis et Galatée (February 22, 2005) Christine Brewer at National Museum of Women in the Arts (February 17, 2005) New Opera on Richard III (February 13, 2005) Pelléas et Mélisande from the Met (February 5, 2005) Poppea in Paris, Again (February 5, 2005) Cunning Little Vixen in Berlin: Follow-Up (February 3, 2005) Schnittke's Gesualdo in Vienna (February 2, 2005) Photographs of Four Saints in Three Acts (February 1, 2005) Premiere of Democracy (January 29, 2005) Victoria de Los Angeles Dead at 81 (January 29, 2005) William Christie's Poppea in Lyon (January 28, 2005) Cunning Little Vixen in Berlin (January 28, 2005) Europa riconosciuta in Milan (January 27, 2005) Marc Minkowski's Magic Flute (January 26, 2005) Opera Lafayette (January 23, 2005) Les Violons du Roy at the Kennedy Center (January 23, 2005) Борис Годунов (Boris Godunov, Kirov Opera) (January 22, 2005) DVD: Des Contes d'Hoffman (January 21, 2005) Live Opera vs. Film (January 11, 2005) Aria on DVD (January 9, 2005) Productions Instead of Premieres (January 7, 2005) Opera and Egypt (January 3, 2005) Countertenors at the Met (January 1, 2005) Chopin's Last Concert in Paris (December 24, 2004) More on Viola's Tristan (December 23, 2004) Musical Comedy by Shostakovich? (December 22, 2004) Renata Tebaldi Soars above Her Last Finale (December 20, 2004) Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream (December 20, 2004) Interview with Ambassador William Christie (December 14, 2004) Round Table on Opera in the 21st Century (December 14, 2004) Online Opera Listening Kit (December 11, 2004) More on Bill Viola's Tristan und Isolde (December 10, 2004) More on Gérard Mortier at the Opéra de Paris (December 8, 2004) Gérard Mortier at Opéra de Paris (December 6, 2004) Auber's Haÿdée at the Théâtre impérial de Compiègne (December 5, 2004) New Season at Washington National Opera (December 3, 2004) Shostakovich, Lady Macbeth (December 2, 2004) Bill Viola's Tristan und Isolde (December 1, 2004) Follow-Up: Il Trovatore at Washington National Opera (November 30, 2004) Reopening of La Fenice in Venice (November 23, 2004) Flying Dutchman in San Francisco (November 17, 2004) Opera in the 20th Century (November 12, 2004) Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre in San Francisco (November 12, 2004) Dawn Upshaw in Carmélites (November 10, 2004) Kát'a Kabanová in Paris (November 9, 2004) Luisa Fernanda at Washington National Opera (November 8, 2004) Monteverdi's Orfeo in Tourcoing (November 6, 2004) Pelléas in Berlin (November 1, 2004) Il Trovatore at Washington National Opera (October 25, 2004) Monteverdi's Poppea in Paris (October 24, 2004) Opera by Film Directors (October 23, 2004) John Corigliano Lecture (October 19, 2004) Stockhausen's Licht Cycle (October 16, 2004) Opera Is Back in Toulouse (October 16, 2004) Opera in the 20th Century (October 14, 2004) Wagner's Das Rheingold in Chicago (October 13, 2004) Alessandra Marc at the National Gallery (October 12, 2004) Messiaen's Saint François in Paris (October 12, 2004) American Opera at the Renwick Gallery (October 11, 2004) Dame Felicity Lott Interview, Offenbach's La Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein (October 8, 2004) Rameau's Platée and Strauss's Daphne in New York (October 2, 2004) Martinů's The Greek Passion in London (October 1, 2004) Billy Budd at Washington National Opera (September 29, 2004) Hosokawa's Hanjo in Brussels (September 28, 2004) Andrea Chénier at Washington National Opera (September 24, 2004) Pelléas in Paris (September 21, 2004) Bartók's Bluebeard (September 20, 2004) New Opera Films (September 18, 2004) Andrea Chénier at Washington National Opera (September 9, 2004) Opera and the Arts Race (September 9, 2004) Das Rheingold on Original Instruments (August 24, 2004) Opera in Finland (August 20, 2004) Richard Rodney Bennett's Opera (August 17, 2004) Opera in the 20th Century (August 16, 2004) New Opera about Guantánamo Bay, Cuba (August 12, 2004) Michael Nyman, Man and Boy: Dada (August 9, 2004) Dialogues des Carmélites, Opera International (August 6, 2004) Dog Sculptures in Bayreuth (August 4, 2004) Preview of the Opera Season, 2004–2005 (August 4, 2004) La Bohème at Wolf Trap (August 2, 2004) Leoš Janáček (August 2, 2004) Strauss's Capriccio at the Palais Garnier, Paris (July 11, 2004) Nabucco on the Met Broadcast (April 20, 2004) Some Thoughts on the Washington Opera (April 14, 2004) Die Walküre on the Met Broadcast (April 7, 2004) Das Rheingold on the Met Broadcast (March 25, 2004) Millennium Wagner Opera Company at the Cosmos Club (March 18, 2004) Les Arts Florissants at the Kennedy Center (February 4 and 5, 2004) Werther at the Met (January 11, 2004) Tuning in to Opera (January 10, 2004) Opera and the Way Things Should Be (December 28, 2003) Opening of La Fenice (December 19, 2003) La Juive and, Once Again, Proust (December 15, 2003) Saving the Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (December 4, 2003) La Juive at the Met (November 15, 2003) INTERVIEW: Wagner in Washington (Part 6 of 6) (September 30, 2003) INTERVIEW: Wagner in Washington (Part 5 of 6) (September 29, 2003) INTERVIEW: Wagner in Washington (Part 4 of 6) (September 28, 2003) INTERVIEW: Wagner in Washington (Part 3 of 6) (September 23, 2003) INTERVIEW: Wagner in Washington (Part 2 of 6) (September 21, 2003) INTERVIEW: Wagner in Washington (Part 1 of 6) (September 20, 2003) Albéniz the Opera Composer (August 25, 2003) Wagner Festival in Washington? (August 19, 2003) Bayreuth, Anyone? (August 12, 2003) Der Ring at Bayreuth Festival (August 5, 2003)