Linnea Leonard Kickasola

10 RESULTS

“Freud’s Last Session”

Imagining the discussion of God, death, love, and sex C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud might have shared, had these large personalities intersected.

The Royal Family

An amusing, frenetic new paean takes timely jabs at the nature of celebrity and identity in our culture.

Famously compromised

The Met’s new take on Tosca is disjointed and amateurish, and invokes scandal for scandal’s sake, fame for fame’s sake.

Meaning outside of oneself

Two successful, popular and critically acclaimed productions reaffirm that queries about human destiny and the weight of personal choices continue to be piercing and relevant.

Madama Butterfly

While the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Butterfly was a great success, it was more difficult to determine the ultimate success of the live HD transmission.

Life painted as it is

For Russian author Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, there was always a sense of hopelessness underlying his words. But at the same time he paints humanity so truly and with such a loving and specific eye that one cannot help but be drawn to his characters.

Career, faith, and family in the city

Contemplating both the costs and blessings of city neighbourhood and community, with an eye towards providence. A meditation on Cheryl Mendelson’s Morningside Heights. Linnea Leonard Kickasola is an opera singer in New York City.