The new Tosca: “Vissi d’arte” with Sonya Yoncheva

The Glory of Democracy - The New York Times

The Glory of Democracy - The New York Times:



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It's time again, and I can 't resist: George F. Handel - Messiah - Staged version [complete] Jean-Christophe Spinosi conductor Ensemble Matheus Arnold Schoenberg Chor Susan Gritton Cornelia Horak Richard Croft Bejun Metha Florian Boesch Staged by Claus Guth

Anna Caterina Antonacci in Arkansas

New Orleans street scene

Ambassador Ronald Lauder, His Eminence Cardinal Dolan, and Roger Kimball, Editor of the New Criterion in discussion on preserving Christian communities in the Middle East.

The American Classical Orchestra warming up for CPE Bach’s Magnificat

NYC equity exec mauled to death by shark off Costa Rican coast - NY Daily News

NYC equity exec mauled to death by shark off Costa Rican coast - NY Daily News: "Rohina Bhandari"



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Renata Scotto "Libera me Domine" Verdi Requiem

Last summer's pleasure - Garsington Opera: Mozart - Le nozze di Figaro

Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Marina Domashenko, Ekaterina Siurina: 'La Ci Darem la Mano' from Don Giovanni, in Moscow

Praetorius Six Dances from Terpsichore Collegium Terpsichore, Fritz Neumeyer, conductor

Hana Blažíková Soprano and Bruce Dickey , cornetto - Nicolò Corradini Spargiti Flores 1642

His Scarlatti was sloppy - an arrest at Steinway & Sons in New York

For the anniversary of the November Paris attacks - The Metropolitan Opera, Support for Paris Sounds Out With Singing of France's National Anthem - The New York Times

At Metropolitan Opera, Support for Paris Sounds Out With Singing of France's National Anthem - The New York Times:



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Somehow apposite in our Times - 'Tutto nel mondo è burla' - finale (Falstaff- G. Verdi)

Desecration of the Theodore Roosevelt statue at the Museum of Natural History in New York

L’incoronazione di Poppea with John Eliot Gardiner, Cond the Monteverdi Choir with the players of the English Baroque Soloists

Clownfish and anemones at play

Mayor De Blasio beneath the scorn of Verdi and Falstaff

Happy Birthday Giuseppe Verdi! From Don Carlo: Sotto ai folti . . .Nei giardin del bello (Tatiana Troyanos) The Metropolitan Opera

Boris Johnson caught on camera reciting Kipling in Myanmar temple | Politics | The Guardian

Boris Johnson caught on camera reciting Kipling in Myanmar temple | Politics | The Guardian:



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Leonard Cohen, Who by Fire, featuring Javier Mas, London, 15-09-2013

A joke between friends -

Rounding the mark, Gardiner's Bay

Bach Mass B minor BWV 232 Collegium 1704 Václav Luks

Suggested footwear for Melania in Houston

Jeannie Rousseau de Clarens, Valiant World War II Spy, Dies at 98 - The New York Times

Jeannie Rousseau de Clarens, Valiant World War II Spy, Dies at 98 - The New York Times:



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The Eclipse in New York

Jon Vickers - Total Eclipse (Handel's 'Samson')

Real 'Fire & Fury' Herbert von Karajan - Dies Irae & Tuba Mirum (Verdi - Requiem)

A shameless plug for my friend Cindy Parzych's new book 'Connecticut Made' - a quirky local guide to some unique offerings. Make Connecticut Great Again!

A dismal review of Nolan's Dunkirk: Fortune’s fickle wheel: lessons from Dunkirk | The New Criterion

Fortune’s fickle wheel: lessons from Dunkirk | The New Criterion:



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Pre-Ordination in Three Mile Harbor

J.P. Morgan Chase - Guidance to help you achieve your savings goals

The Thrill of Losing Money by Investing in a Manhattan Restaurant | The New Yorker

The Thrill of Losing Money by Investing in a Manhattan Restaurant | The New Yorker:



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Detail Fresco Westminster Abbey

Moon rising over East Hampton Point

Waders at the Victoria & Albert Museum London

Israeli Envoy Tells UNESCO His Leaking Toilet ‘Is Much [More] Important Than the Decision You Just Adopted’

Israeli Envoy Tells UNESCO His Leaking Toilet ‘Is Much [More] Important Than the Decision You Just Adopted’:



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Chartwell

The Women of World War Two - Whitehall, London

Gathering storm over Shelter Island

The Royal Concertebouw Orchestra has given up trying to charge for videos of some superb concerts.

Video – RCO:



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Le nozze di Figaro - Garsington Opera & Orchestre de Chambre de Paris

St. Martin-in-the-Fields

Catriona Morison, mezzo soprano - "Parto, parto ma tu ben mio" - La Clem...

Humanity - The Edith Cavell Monument in London

Hartwell House Aylesbury

Bob Dylan 2016 Nobel Lecture in Literature

Tchaikovsky: "Pique Dame" (Пиковая дама): Polina's Aria. Vesselina Kasarova

"Fuck you, I'm Millwall!": How hero 'took piss out of' London terrorists - so they stabbed him eight times - Mirror Online

"F*** you, I'm Millwall!": How hero 'took p*** out of' London terrorists - so they stabbed him eight times - Mirror Online:



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Götterdämmerung "Vengeance Trio" with Brünnhilde: Birgit Nilsson; Gunther: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; Hagen: Gottlob Frick; Georg Solti, The Vienna Philharmonic

Russian Ships Fire Cruise Missiles on ISIS Targets near Palmyra Syria

Russian Ships Fire Cruise Missiles on ISIS Targets - YouTube: "https://youtu.be/md6eMJTBdtU"



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Du côté de chez Swan - with cygnets - Three Mile Harbor

The choir and orchestra of St. Ignatius Loyola, New York, K. Scott Warren, Cond., with Danya Katok, soprano, Matthew Anderson, Tenor, and Jeremy Galyon, Bass.

For Manchester: A Rückter-Lied from Gustave Mahler - Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen - Magdalena Kožená / Claudio Abbado

Friends who will be in New York from May 26 should visit the New York Historical Society, where Sargent's 'Gassed' will be the centerpiece of their show 'W​orld War I Beyond the Trenches​.'

Another Broadway squatter - Joy Brown on Broadway

Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn's hands on the Ca' Sagredo Hotel in Venice

Renée Fleming in her last role as the marschallin at the Metropolitan Opera

My friend Christophe von Hohenberg speaking at the Art Show on Pier 94, on the 30th Anniversary of the death of Andy Warhol.

Les critiques musicaux - Hervé Niquet

Elections in France, Le Pen, The French Disconnection - The New York Times

The French Disconnection - The New York Times:



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For the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising April 19 - May 16 1943. This monument rests in Riverside Park at approximately 82nd Street, in New York.

Savor Renée Fleming in “Der Rosenkavalier,” at the Met - The New Yorker

Savor Renée Fleming in “Der Rosenkavalier,” at the Met - The New Yorker:



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George Frideric Handel: Messiah - Claus Guth, Jean-Christophe Spinosi (2...

Bruno Walter conducts the Good Friday Music from Wagner's Parsifal

The Tallis Scholars sing Tomás Luis de Victoria's First Lamentation for Maundy Thursday

Maestro Donald Palumbo, with members of the Metropolitan Opera Chorus, in a discussion about La Traviata, wearing the iconic masks of the Salzburg (Willy Decker) production.

World War II ‘Avenger’ reveals his heroic Nazi-killing past | New York Post

World War II ‘Avenger’ reveals his heroic Nazi-killing past | New York Post:



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The Professor and the Jihadi - The New York Times

The Professor and the Jihadi - The New York Times: "though most of its practitioners, it must be emphasized, are peaceful"



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The proverbial lee shore, or in this case, Redondo Pier!

Eugene Onegin at the Met: Anna Netrebko as Tatiana, Mariusz Kwiecien as Onegin. Alexey Dolgov, Lenski, and Maestro Robin Ticciati, cond.

The proverbial lee shore! Salvage from Ladder Bay, Saba, March 2017

Gabriel Moreno from the Affordable Art Fair, New York, with Retrospect Galleries, Australia

Paris Review - John Cheever, The Art of Fiction No. 62

Paris Review - John Cheever, The Art of Fiction No. 62:



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Coda on West End Avenue - a piano's ignominious end

Bedrock New York: a view of Grand Central Station and the Chrysler Building, from the East.

J. S. Bach Mass B minor BWV 232 Collegium 1704 Václav Luks

Handel's Semele, with Rosemary Joshua and John Mark Ainsley, singing Take heed what you press! and No, no! Ill take no less

Robert Silvers, a Founding Editor of New York Review of Books, Dies at 87 - The New York Times

Robert Silvers, a Founding Editor of New York Review of Books, Dies at 87 - The New York Times:



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Elīna Garanča at Carnegie Hall, along with Kevin Murphy, piano accomp.

For those trapped in the Trump d'oeil twitter cycle, it might be a pleasant break to read Brooke Allen on Diana Athill, who at age 98 has come out with her latest memoire: Alive, Alive Oh!

Brooke Allen on Diana Athill:



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Fidelio at the Metropolitan Opera, with Adrianne Pieczonka, as Leonore, Florian Vogt, Florestan, Greer Grimsley, Don Pizarro, and Falk Struckmann Rocco. Sebastian Weigle conducted.

Superb artistry from Vesselina Kasarova, Schwetzinger Festspiele 2005, in a program of Händel, Mozart and Rossini.

The Yale Center for British Art

Union Civil War Re-enactors at Yale University during St. Patrick's Day

The American Ambulance service - a delightful video, touring Paris - 1914-2014 : George King III et son ambulance AFS (Ford T) à Paris - 14 j...

Franz Joseph Haydn: The Creation / Die Schöpfung Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia Coro (Chorus) de la OSG (Joan Company, dir.) Richard Egarr, director Mhairi Lawson, soprano James Gilchrist, tenor Andrew Foster-Williams, bass

Jury Duty - The New York Supreme Court 1-800-LAWYER country!

'Like a Rock' for International Woman's Day - W.A. Mozart - Così fan tutte "Come scoglio" Barbara Frittoli, Ricardo Muti, Cond. De Simone

Henry Sapoznik: Yiddish Marksman - Kletzmer musician

Good morning Mr. Hopper - The Whitney Museum of American Art

“Daddy, I ain’t gonna be no lawyer—I’m gonna be a singer!” Victoria Livengood, the Dixie Diva tells how she came to opera

Louise Alder and Sarah Connolly sing 'Signor, deh, non partire,' from L'Incoronazione di Poppea, Monteverdi, The Academy of Ancient Music, Cond. Richard Egarr

Roberta Invernizzi, Ottavia at Carnegie Hall

L'incoronazione di Poppea, with Rinaldo Alessandrini, Cond., Miah Persson and Leonardo Cortellazzi, Concerto Italiano at Carnegie Hall

Vesselina Kasarova: "Una voce poco fa". G. Rossini Il Barbieri di Seviglia

Brahms - Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 120 No. 1 Richard Stoltzman, clarinet, and Yehudi Wyner, piano

Vittorio Grigolo catching the bouquet after Werther, with Isabel Leonard and cast. The Times review is a fair appreciation https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/arts/music/werther-met-opera-review.html

Post-Valentine's Day counsel - Kate Lindsey - Vois sous l'archet fremissant from 'Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Maestro Donald Palumbo and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in rehearsal

Sidney Blumenthal · A Short History of the Trump Family: The First Family · London Review of Books 16 February 2017

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New York Classical Review » Blog Archive » Thrilling vocalism in “Puritani” provokes a zealous Met audience

New York Classical Review » Blog Archive » Thrilling vocalism in “Puritani” provokes a zealous Met audience:



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Frozen Duchamp - Riverside Drive New York

Children at play - Riverside Drive New York

Hamas explosives chief accidentally blows himself up

Hamas explosives chief accidentally blows himself up:



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Georg Händel - La Resurrezione, HWV47 | Marc Minkowski Les Musiciens du Louvre

Yemen: Houthis Target Saudi Navy Al-Madinah Class Frigate, chanting 'Death to America, Death to Israel.'

Redneck assemblage No. 4

Build a wall - Litchfield County Connecticut

Suggested Trump Inauguration music? Der Leiermann from Schubert's Winterreise Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Alfred Brendel, Piano

Daniel Barenboim with The Berlin Staatskapelle String Quartet, at the WQXR Greenspace