Today I went underground. Thankfully it had nothing to do with entering the witness protection program and everything to do with visiting ou...

We are 9 days away from opening night, people. Pretty soon, we'll be out of the rehearsal hall and on stage. But not before I got some s...

At rehearsal of the "mad scene"... Sometimes opera rehearsals just look like really awkward meetings--where there's guns and k...

I like to think I'm the inspiration for this event (even though they maligned my species as afraid of opera, which clearly I'm not...

You would think opera singers would be the loudest talkers ever. I mean, their singing voice can powerfully carry through a huge theater. Bu...

Rehearsals for Lucia di Lammermoor have begun! Here's a few of the peeps I will be hanging out with for the next few weeks, as they pre...

Opera...Literature...some of the finer things in life. (And by finer, I mean "good," not snootier.) We get to combine the two ofte...

It's rare that I get to do a big reveal on this here blog, but today...today is different. (And not because it's 4/20.) It happens t...

I miss you. I hope we can be together soon. Lurve, Carl .

I'm a 9-5 kind of chicken. (And it's always 5 o'clock somewhere. ) So I'm often not around when our chorus rehearses for a p...

Finally, someone brought me a new Peep. Sure, I have Giacomo here, but--what do they say?--make new friends and keep the old. This Peep is p...

A drizzly, gray day in Cleveland? Why it's perfect for hauling giant slabs of wood! I have mentioned before that we have a partnership w...