Opera Chic Name Checked by Alex Ross in The New Yorker

Opera Chic is honored to be name checked in Alex Ross's most recent article for The New Yorker, "Taking Liberties: Reviving the art of classical improvisation".

In Ross's piece, he mind-blowingly illuminated a handful of recent New York concerts where improvisational cadenzas ran (un)manicured (and were even encouraged): Will Crutchfield's bel-canto blow-out at the Caramoor Festival, which paired cadenze fetishists vs. purists in a passionate debate for Rossini's Semiramide & Donizetti's L'Elisir. While further south at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, both the pianist Robert Levin (via Mozart's Piano Concerto K.482) and the violinist Joshua Bell (via the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto Opus 64) presented their own cadenze to the delight of the jaded crowds.

"Caramoor draws a knowing crowd — even Opera Chic, the mystery blogger of Milan, was said to be in attendance — but Meade caught the connoisseurs off guard: a murmur of amazement ran through the audience."

If you haven't yet read it, go make it happen. What Alex Ross doesn't know is that every post on Opera Chic actually contains an anagram of "The Rest is Noise" in it, which subliminally drives traffic back to his site. SEETHE IN IT ROSS!