Extraordinary performance by Stephanie Blythe. Was it because of her, the length of the opera (90 minutes!), the ever fascinating story of Orpheus descending to the underworld to save his wife Eurdydice, or Peter Gelb’s

We didn’t call it a blog then, but when my son was hospitalized in 1998, I started a website to keep family and friends up to date. Then I wrote an article in The New