All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

A photo essay from Rigoletto's Mantova

May 22 • Olivia Giovetti

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Grimes Is at His Exercise

Peter Grimes as deposition, Disney hero, Billy Joel, nihilist penguin, and Jesuit

May 14 • Olivia Giovetti

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When the Devil Drives

The Faustian fallouts of Leon Botstein and Peter Gelb

May 5 • Olivia Giovetti

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Salomes I Have Known

Burning it all down with the flames of faith.

May 1 • Olivia Giovetti

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April 2026

Two or Three (Other) Things I Know About I Puritani

The kinky and the Kinski

Apr 13 • Olivia Giovetti

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Inheritances

Some very belated notes on a piece I wrote for Harper's in February

Apr 2 • Olivia Giovetti

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February 2026

God Forbid a Girl Has Hobbies

Multimedia notes towards a comparative theory of Girlhood

Feb 22 • Olivia Giovetti

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The Protégé

Simon Ghraichy, Jeffrey Epstein, and the fog of art

Feb 9 • Olivia Giovetti

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“There Is a Reason You Are Still Struggling and it Is Not Your Talent”

What the latest Epstein documents reveal about his relationship with Leon Botstein

Feb 4 • Olivia Giovetti

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January 2026

Sight Unseen

Art, illusion, and the moral cost of looking away

Jan 7 • Olivia Giovetti

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December 2025

Fern von hier Folgers mir nun

Fern von hier Folgers mir nun.

Dec 24, 2025 • Olivia Giovetti

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The Ultimate Classical Music Gift Guide for the Terminally Online and Historically-Burdened

Because we've all read too much music theory to be merry.

Dec 3, 2025 • Olivia Giovetti

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