Le roi malgré lui
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Camille Saint-Saëns Bard Music Festival, Weekend One, at Bard College, August 10-12, 2012The New York Times, August 14, 2012 For an unrepentent music geek like me, the Bard Music Festival is simply irresistible: a fabulous wealth of music by a major composer from the classical tradition, surrounded and contextualized with works by forebears, peers,
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Le Roi Malgré Lui, by Cory Weaver Le Roi Malgré Lui at Bard SummerScapeThe New York Times, July 31, 2012 Did it constitute a cop-out when I refused to divulge details of Thaddeus Strassberger's staging for this elegantly daffy Chabrier opera? I had a hard time deciding, not least because many aspects of the