After Quote by Karen DeCrow

As any opera fan knows, lawyers and judges do not fare well in most operas. Just consider the productions of 'Andrea Chenier,' 'Aida, Norma,'…

— Karen DeCrow

Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of…

— Karen DeCrow

Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.

— Karen DeCrow

In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political nor religious. This is an issue of equality for…

— Karen DeCrow

In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they…

— Karen DeCrow

If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision,…

— Karen DeCrow

Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have…

— Karen DeCrow

The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets.…

— Karen DeCrow

Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me…

— Karen DeCrow

The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and…

— Karen DeCrow

The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional wisdom is…

— Karen DeCrow

Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.

— Karen DeCrow