Does opera have a chardonnay problem? Chardonnay, wine lovers will tell you, is a very pernicious wine, embodying all the evils of commercialization, globalization and the banality of contemporary taste. Its success in the United States is part of an ominous and homogenizing tendency toward a... -
The Opera Grapevine: Beyond the Chardonnay
Does opera have a chardonnay problem? Chardonnay, wine lovers will tell you, is a very pernicious wine, embodying all the evils of commercialization, globalization and the banality of contemporary taste. Its success in the United States is part of an ominous and homogenizing tendency toward a...-
By Philip Kennicott