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Pseudonymous No More: Name and Face Reveal
Since I started this blog at 14 years old, you have known me as Violette Leonard for the sake of my privacy, for which reason I have also covered most of my face. However, I recently turned 18, and I can now show you both my face and my name. Exit Violette—pursued by a bear, if you will…
Enter Viveka Mirkin.
Highlights of the Met’s 2026-27 Season
The Met’s 2026-27 season is almost upon us. With only 17 operas, compared to 26 in the season I met opera, the modus operandi appears to be making every single production count. It was excruciating to whittle the coming delicacies down, but here are the five I am most anticipating.
Girl of the Golden Met Awards 2026: WINNERS!
Choose your favorite performers and opera from the Met Opera's 2025-26 season! Vote by commenting on this blog post, on Instagram, on Facebook, or by voting each day in my Instagram story. Voting closes on Monday, June 21st, at 11:59 PM EST.
Dear Timothée Chalamet: We Care About Opera
At its essence, art exists to bring a little wonder and beauty into our lives. Can you honestly say that opera doesn’t do that? You may not care about opera, but that does not negate the multitudes who do, just as you have millions of fans despite many others’ total indifference to you. Come to the opera, Timothée.
Met Opera 2025-26 Review: Madama Butterfly
If there exist people who don’t cry at Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, I don’t wish to know them. The luminous Ailyn Pérez’s performance in the title role confirmed her status as the Queen of the Butterflies…
Met Opera 2025-26 Review: Don Giovanni
We hear early on in Mozart’s Don Giovanni that the title cad has seduced 1,800 women, but the people seduced by the opera since its premiere in 1787 is far too many to fit in Leporello’s little black book.
