Matthew Spellberg

Matthew Spellberg writes on dreaming, the history of architecture, opera, and solitude. His work appears, among other places, in Cabinet Magazine, The Yale Review, The Southwest Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Music & Literature.

Performance

Splendor Is Never Enough: 'Manon Lescaut' at the Metropolitan Opera

The Met’s new production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, directed by Richard Eyre, takes place in a meticulously, even extravagantly realized World-War-II France, with sidewalk cafes and lots of Nazis.