“I am going to turn it into a story. That is what a second meeting does. It is the story’s touchstone, the last curve of the parenthesis, which joins up with the first curve and makes a unity of its contents.”
— Pipistrello, in Isak Dinesen’s “Second Meeting”
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Second meeting with… Rosa Feola
Previous meeting: here Fair or not, one must begin with the fact that this began as a missed re-meeting with Lisette Oropesa. The American soprano whose triumphant first full run (there was a one-off in October 2015) of Met Violettas were washed out – with the rest of the performing arts world – by the… Read more
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Second meeting with… you
Besides the usual press release spam, my mailbox this summer got a very nice inquiry from a reader about where I’d gone off to. Well, the answer, as for so many others: out of New York City (and, indeed, the entire Northeast). Or, rather, having left after Lisette Oropesa’s triumph in La Traviata was swallowed… Read more
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Second Meetings at the Opera 