
Ep. 13 Lakme by Delibes broadcast 10.22.17
Opera For Everyone
The Enlightenment and the Arts
Tchaikovsky said of the lead reading about one of his ballets: Oh, this is so wonderful. It's amazing. If I if I'd known that this was out there, I never would have even tried to write Swan Lake get out. We could have told this whole story and you would know that that was what was going on. But it's just so pretty. The music. Well, and he he daily specialized in pretty music. Most of his work was for ballet. And then Kofsky, interestingly, who also did a lot of work for ballet. You know, he's done operas as well. So we're not machines. No, we're
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