The Metropolitan Opera & the Opera Club

DEC ’14-NOV’15: I saw only 12 performances at the Met this year (my fewest!), but happy I could entertain new and old friends at some magnificent performances. The grand Triumphal March in Aïda with Ashley Le Liu & Patrick Gorman, from L.A. New Year’s Eve’s The Merry Widow with Tom & Pat Shiah. La Bohème with Marney & Joe Thomas in from Ithaca. In February, saw La Donna del Lago with Sherran Blair and Pat Shiah. Lucia di Lammermoor with Minalie Hsieh and Ray Chen. Michael Richardson came in from Chicago for the new production of Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci and the next day for The Rake’s Progress with his Oxford classmate Nicholas Kadar. Started the fall season with the lavish Zeffirelli production of Turandot with UNIS classmate Bill & Cindy Ling. The new production of Otello (with Minalie & Jackson Hsieh and Ray Chen), The first of Sondra Radvanovski’s singing the three Donizetti’s Tudor queens in Anna Bolena (with Pat Shiah). And delighted to entertain C.C. & Harriet Tung, in from H.K., for Tosca and again, with Pat, for Turandot.