gemma D. alexander

Writers are always reading, and usually on more than one level. I still remember the shock I felt the first time I saw a typo...

Seattle Opera’s production of La Boheme made me cry. I love this opera about bohemian artists in Paris for several reasons. One is that it...

My family watched The Wizard of Oz recently. My sense of the movie has changed every time I’ve seen it, but my response to one...

When I watched Cinderella at Seattle Opera, I wished that I could see it through my child’s eyes. Soon after that, the whole family watched...

At the end of my rant about holding on to my own aesthetic standards in the face of a sanitized kid-friendly worldview, I gave opera...