Notebook

Grimes Is at His Exercise

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

May 14 • Olivia Giovetti

Salomes I Have Known

Burning it all down with the flames of faith.

May 1 • Olivia Giovetti

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

The kinky and the Kinski

Apr 13 • Olivia Giovetti

Killing Khovansky

1,041 words about the past that have absolutely nothing to do with the present (until they do)

Sep 23, 2025 • Olivia Giovetti

Raymond Bisha, 1957-2025

Aug 14, 2025 • Olivia Giovetti

Two or Three (Other) Things I Know about Il Trovatore

Once again writing about Verdi and politics.

Jul 31, 2025 • Olivia Giovetti

How Joseph Haydn beat Katy Perry into space

Apr 17, 2025 • Olivia Giovetti

Two or Three (Other) Things I Know about Aida

How one opera topples several empires.

Mar 18, 2025 • Olivia Giovetti

And Does She Know that Rome Is Burning?

In which I get ChatGPT to admit that it shouldn't exist.

Jan 27, 2025 • Olivia Giovetti

Always Have Been. Always Will Be.

Election Day with Nabucco and Ulrich Mühe

Nov 6, 2024 • Olivia Giovetti

Old sounds, new contexts

Sep 4, 2024 • Olivia Giovetti

The Unquestioned Answers

A Nobel laureate reviews a gossipy biography of The Three Tenors by Monica Lewinsky's mother.

Aug 2, 2020 • Olivia Giovetti

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