The new Verdi's Macbeth at the Metropolitan opera is superb! Macbeth Quinn Kelsey, Lady Macbeth: Lise Davidsen Banquo: Ryan Speedo Green, Macduff: Freddie De Tommaso Malcolm: Jonathan Burton, Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin

 

The anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Per Ardua Ad Astra - Westminster Abbey

 

Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, the German destroyer FGS Lütjens requested permission to come alongside the USS Winston S. Churchill to line the rails in full dress, with the message 'We stand by You.' Remember when we had friends and allies?

 

In a late August squall, a friend had asked me to help take his boat from Huntington down the East River to Brooklyn. This would be the last time I would see the World Trade Center. My home town of Manhasset lost 42 men. My cousin was killed in the field, fighting Al Queda in Afghanistan.

 

A delightful cool summer evening watching the Metropolitan Opera HD of La Bohème outdoors, but the 12 year-old that lurks in me couldn't help laughing when an ambulance passed on Broadway as Mimi lay dying...

 

After the Leipzig incident, Comrade Lavrov has ordered the Goethe-Institut(s) closed across Russia. The Bundesminister des Auswärtigen should send him a copy. of Faust for his lonely evenings.

 

The Metropolitan Opera 2026 Summer HD Festival featuring Tristan Und Isolde, I Puritani, Eugene Onegin, El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, and La Bohème outdoors in the Plaza