Diana Burgwyn

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BSR Contributor Since December 25, 2006

Diana Burgwyn is a critic for the London-based publication Opera Now and the program annotator for the Opera Company of Philadelphia. Author of a history of the Curtis Institute of Music, she is compiling its oral history. She lives in Center City.

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Costello, Pérez: Impossible love?

Can real-life opera marriages survive?

Is that your heart or your ego? Or: Operatic marriages, pro and con
The trials of Verdi's Violetta or Puccini's Tosca are child's play next to the challenge of holding an operatic marriage together. Ailyn Pérez and Stephen Costello, currently appearing in Roméo et Juliette, are the latest to try. Wish them well.

Diana Burgwyn

Articles 6 minute read

Peter Gelb: Fresh Air At The Met
Peter Gelb, the Metropolitan Opera’s new general manager, is bound and determined to reach new audiences. Which explains how I wound up, on a recent Saturday afternoon, watching a live telecast of a Met performance of The Magic Flute at a movie theater in Neshaminy Mall. On the basis of this evidence, Gelb is off to an impressive start.

Diana Burgwyn

Articles 9 minute read

Why opera audiences boo
Why are opera singers so touchy and opera audiences so rowdy? Blame it on the instrument— the human voice— and the art form. Opera audiences are a lot like opera itself— that is, lacking in subtlety and excessively emotional.

Diana Burgwyn

Articles 9 minute read