The Arts in NYC Fall 2012

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” If only I had followed Alexander Pope’s advice before heading to Lincoln Center to see Aida. Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve heard of the Opera and how grant and elegant one is who heads out to such an event. For […]

Expectations color reality, right? Well, much to my dismay, I expected so much more from the Opera than I received. My criticisms run rampant, so I’ll do my best to keep them terse and understandable before the inner arts aficionado in me begins to scream. For starters, for what it could have been, the show […]

Look, I’ll be frank. I came into last night’s performance expecting to be bored to the point of tears for the entirety of the performance. I’ll admit that there were portions of last night’s opera that were very engaging and interesting. On the whole, though, this was easily the least enjoyable of the three outings […]

The performance was good, it wasn’t quite as good as I expected, but then again my expectations were rather high. The story is one that I like, because its like an Operatic version of Romeo and Juliet. There were a few things that I didn’t really like, okay more than just a few. The first […]

  Here’s what The New York Times had to say about The Met’s production of Verdi’s “Aida” we saw last night.  What do you think? Greg Broom sent us this article and interview with Melvin Sokolsky, the photographer that inspired him to become a fashion photographer.  What do you think? And Kenneth Pietrobono’s exhibition The […]