Monthly Archives: February 2018

THE MET’S LA BOHEME: DEATH COMES TO NEVERLAND

A band of lost boys, living high above the twentieth century’s urban world, who won’t grow up, led by a free spirit unable to trust the love of the girl who loves him totally. J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan? Think again. Giacomo Puccini’s La Boheme. Imagine Peter cradling a dying Wendy in his arms and you […]

February 25, 2018 – 4:52 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Art, from Paul, History, Men and Women, Music, Opera, Quotations, Theater | Comments Off on THE MET’S LA BOHEME: DEATH COMES TO NEVERLAND

VIRGINIA OPERA’S DREAM: THE MYSTICISM OF HAPPINESS

The great British essayist G. K. Chesterton considered Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to be a masterful presentation of “the mysticism of happiness.” He went on to explain: “That is to say, it is the conception that when a man lives upon a borderland he may find himself in the spiritual or supernatural atmosphere, not […]

February 14, 2018 – 11:45 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Current Events, from Paul, History, Men and Women, Music, Opera, Quotations, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theater, Theology, Uncategorized | Comments Off on VIRGINIA OPERA’S DREAM: THE MYSTICISM OF HAPPINESS

The Met’s ELIXIR OF LOVE: Wine, Women and Song

I first heard about elixirs of love in 1959 when, through my transistor radio, I heard Jed Lieber’s words about that gypsy with the gold-capped tooth She’s got a pad on Thirty-Fourth and Vine Sellin’ little bottles of Love Potion Number Nine But the idea of a potent which causes love is ancient. At the […]

February 11, 2018 – 3:26 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in from Paul, History, Music, Quotations, Theater | Comments Off on The Met’s ELIXIR OF LOVE: Wine, Women and Song