August is the month when summer begins to exhale. The days are still golden, but there’s a subtle shift in the light—a slant, a softness—tha...

What a magnificent experience from top to tail. One never knows how an away-from-home experience will go— personally or creatively, but fr...

'This is Prophetic!' from Nixon in China  Music by J o hn Adams Libretto by Alice Goodman PAT The children in the U.S.A. all...

©Julia Murney We all know the joke. Okay... well most of us know the joke. "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" The answer i...

Al & Sierra: toes in the sand re-discovering Sophie De Palma! drinking peach martinis with Tyne. engaging in "The Adventures...

Today was the best rehearsal day I have ever experienced in my life. For so many reasons. I have walked on Broadway stages before. I hav...

Adjusting. Capital A. Reading like crazy thanks to Audible.com : ( Outliers , Foreskin’s Lament , When You Are Engulfed in Flames , The...

I feel inclined, on Ms DePalma's final day of performance, to share with you one last Sophie Hurrah. She will be missed, but clearly she...

faking it-- Operatically speaking hanging with the Puritani Quartet in the Greenroom, 1835 getting Sophie DePalma’s score signed by Mae...

Inspired by the genius of a certain director, Mr. Stephen Wadsworth... more titles from Sophie DePalma. * * * SOPHIE DE PALMA: GI...

Golden Age explores the night of January 24, 1835, opening night of Vincenzo Bellini 's final opera I Puritani ( The Puritans ),...

So what happens when Sophie DePalma of Terrance McNally's Master Class meets Bel Canto composer Vincenzo Bellini of Terrance McNally...