opera

How to go to the opera

A guide from The Amateur

Mar 29 • Cecily Carver

Tosca's predicament

The Standard Repertoire

Jan 26 • Cecily Carver

Belated 2025 roundup

It’s a little late for year-end roundups, but I’d like to do one anyway.

Jan 12 • Cecily Carver

But doctor, we are I Pagliacci

The standard repertoire

Oct 6, 2025 • Cecily Carver

Notes on my listening habits

Previously: Notes on my reading habits.

Jun 30, 2025 • Cecily Carver

The Standard Repertoire: Dialogues des Carmélites

Neither exercises force nor submits to it

Mar 3, 2025 • Cecily Carver

The Standard Repertoire: Der Rosenkavalier

Nov 25, 2024 • Cecily Carver

Gambling Stories: The Queen of Spades

There's a mini-genre of 19th-century fiction I particularly enjoy: gambling narratives.

Aug 26, 2024 • Cecily Carver

The Standard Repertoire: Ariadne auf Naxos

A Breakup Opera

Jul 15, 2024 • Cecily Carver

Trivial things are not for me

Contemplating my life choices at Nixon in China

Jul 1, 2024 • Cecily Carver

Is it worth getting into opera?

I've spent most of my life being an Opera Person, and it's been very rewarding, for the most part — some of the most emotionally and artistically…

May 27, 2024 • Cecily Carver

The Standard Repertoire: Nixon in China

This post is the sixth entry in an ongoing series about the operas of the standard repertoire.

Mar 25, 2024 • Cecily Carver

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