Critical Drift
Olivia GiovettiClassical music, culture and politics, and other shiny objects.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 66 | Founded | 6 years ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
A statue of Rigoletto that sits in the courtyard of Mantova’s tourist center, which is also known as the Casa di Rigoletto. (Shot on 35mm)
Last month, I took about 12 hours’ worth of trains to get from Berlin to Florence, where I reviewed...
Grimes Is at His Exercise
On this week’s episode of Decanonized, I’m joined by one of my favorite musicologists and musical thinkers, Imani Mosley, to talk about the only Benjamin Britten opera on Henry W. Simon’s list, Peter Grimes. Simon gives us five Menotti oper...
When the Devil Drives
Berlioz’s La damnation de Faust, as performed at the Metropolitan Opera [screenshot]
Update, May 16, 2026: A Guardian story published on May 15 reveals the board of Bard College “voted to end” Botstein’s tenure, he did not mak...
Salomes I Have Known
Lise Davidsen as Salome in Lydia Steier’s production for the Opéra National de Paris. (Photo: Charles Duprat-OnP)
One of the parts I love most about hosting an opera podcast is diving into the historical context of a work’s premiere.1 At a...
Two or Three (Other) Things I Know About I Puritani
Previously on Two or Three Things I Know About…: Verdi’s Il Trovatore
In last week’s episode of my new podcast, Decanonized (available wherever you get your podcasts, and now also available on Substack!), I discussed Bellini’s I Pur...
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