Archive - Critical Drift

The Batshit Classical Holiday Mixtape

John Brown, Bertolt Brecht, and George Michael

Dec 19, 2024 •

Olivia Giovetti

November 2024

How Should a Critic Be?

Peter Gelb (still) really doesn't like critics.

Nov 20, 2024 •

Olivia Giovetti

This Is Not a Land of Kings

Or maybe it is… but it doesn't have to be.

Nov 15, 2024 •

Olivia Giovetti

Always Have Been. Always Will Be.

Election Day with Nabucco and Ulrich Mühe

Nov 6, 2024 •

Olivia Giovetti

September 2024

Selective Interest

Narrative and cultural gaps, and butterflies from New York to Nagasaki

Sep 30, 2024 •

Olivia Giovetti

Old sounds, new contexts

Sep 4, 2024 •

Olivia Giovetti

August 2024

End of the Line

The multifarious finales to Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina

Aug 27, 2024 •

Olivia Giovetti

July 2024

The Great Experiment

On Claus Guth's “Khovanshchina” at the Berlin Staatsoper

Jul 9, 2024 •

Olivia Giovetti

June 2024

A Foot in Both Worlds

Remarks from last month's Make Freedom Ring concert in Berlin

Jun 12, 2024 •

Olivia Giovetti

January 2021

Of Sound Mind and Body

Beethoven and Spalding Gray's searches for meaning

Jan 14, 2021 •

Olivia Giovetti

August 2020

Within and Without

Making art to go beyond what we're otherwise able to express.

Aug 8, 2020 •

Olivia Giovetti

The Unquestioned Answers

When Wisława Szymborska reviewed the Three Tenors

Aug 2, 2020 •

Olivia Giovetti

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