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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
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
Throwing Light
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
Space Oddities
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
From Lviv
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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