Fred Plotkin appears in the following:
A Good Year for New Operas
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
As 2015 comes to a close, Operavore blogger Fred Plotkin comes to the realization that, in the United States, it was a really good year for new opera.
Wexford Festival Opera: Journey into the Unknown
Wednesday, December 09, 2015
The central mission of the Wexford festival since its 1951 founding, writes Operavore's Fred Plotkin, has been to unearth works that have not been heard since their creation.
Knoxville: Fall of 2015
Friday, December 04, 2015
Inspired by a casting call controversy at the Knoxville Opera, Fred Plotkin looks at the role visuals play in how we listen.
Music, Paris and Belief in Reason
Monday, November 30, 2015
Blogger Fred Plotkin shares his thoughts on France, its music and the philosophy of Paris that inspires the world over.
Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell: Poetry in Need of Music
Monday, November 23, 2015
Operavore blogger Fred Plotkin discusses the new play "Dear Elizabeth," about love letters between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell and makes a proposal.
The Operatic Class of 1965, Fifty Years On
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Operavore blogger Fred Plotkin writes about the 2015 Metropolitan Opera Guild's annual luncheon honoring artists that made their debut at the Met in 1965.
Opera Goes to War
Friday, November 13, 2015
From Verdi to Wagner to Prokofiev, opera and musical presentations involving war are abundant writes Operavore blogger Fred Plotkin.
Remembering The Met's Richard Horowitz
Monday, November 09, 2015
Operavore blogger Fred Plotkin remembers the longest-serving employee in the history of the Met, tympanist Richard Horowitz.
When Dreams and Dreamers Inhabit Opera
Monday, November 02, 2015
Fresh from a trip to Ireland's Wexford Festival Opera, Blogger Fred Plotkin writes about the influence of dreams in opera.
Remembering Mariuccia Zerilli-Marimò, Casa Italiana Founder
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Operavove blogger Fred Plotkin writes about Baroness Mariuccia Zerilli-Marimò, the founder of the Casa Italiana, who died suddenly on October 17 at the age of 89.
Can Festivals Help Opera Companies Stay Fresh?
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Opera Philadelphia on Tuesday announced what it calls a 12-day urban opera festival. But it's not the first company to shake up its season routine, as Fred Plotkin writes.
Giotto as an Operatic Inspiration
Friday, October 16, 2015
"What Bach is to music, Giotto is to Renaissance art and all that followed," writes Fred Plotkin in this appreciation of his dramatic paintings.
I Went to a Wedding and an Opera Broke Out
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
You can go to quite a few operas in which a wedding takes place but last week, Fred Plotkin had a new experience.
Learning Italian at the Metropolitan Opera
Wednesday, October 07, 2015
Fred Plotkin looks at how you can study Italian by attending the opera. There are no fewer than 19 such opportunities at the Met this season.
In Praise of Healthy Voices
Friday, October 02, 2015
Healthy voices are a boon to opera fans, writes Fred Plotkin. He cites three star sopranos who are singing roles that Met audiences have not heard them in.
Esa-Pekka Salonen on How Composers Evoke a Sense of Place
Monday, September 28, 2015
A change of scenery can do a lot for a composer's musical perspective, Esa-Pekka Salonen tells Operavore's Fred Plotkin.
The Advantages of Sundays at the Opera
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Sunday matinees, if marketed and priced intelligently, might lure back some of the suburban and outer-borough audiences that the Met Opera has lost, writes Fred Plotkin.
Must Opera Be 'Relevant'?
Friday, September 18, 2015
"I am asked, even more than usual, the exhaustingly trite question of whether opera is still 'relevant,'" writes Fred Plotkin. You might be surprised at his response.
When Opera Singers Work the Worship Circuit
Monday, September 14, 2015
For even established opera singers, church and synagogue gigs are a necessary means of paying the rent, writes Fred Plotkin. But does it help to subscribe to a given faith?
For Opera Lovers, London Beckons with Creative Energy
Wednesday, September 09, 2015
As Queen Elizabeth became the longest-serving monarch in British history Wednesday, British opera lovers were looking to the season ahead. Fred Plotkin reports from London.