[Kathleen] Battle Royale!
PJ files two field reports from the Met: El Niño and the long-awaited return of Kathleen Battle. In Chalk Talk, Washington National Opera’s revised Turandot “for our time” got the team thinking about what other operas need a radically feminist updated ending.
In the Two Minute Drill, Glyndebourne and Staatsoper Berlin announce their new seasons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin has clinical empathy, male conductors are marginalized for a whole week, and Beethoven’s hearing loss, explained!
Kathleen Battle, age 75
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