Unreleased cut
Recent rapturous musings about Huw Montague Rendall and curiosity about Aigul Akhmetshina‘s return to the Met as Rosina in May have prompted the box to share a recent sample of the pair in “Dunque io son.”
Blue Saturday
A grand concert from Angel Blue has Patrick Mack wondering, “where’s her crossover album?”
Yes and no
William Kentridge‘s eclectic The Great Yes, The Great No arrives at Cal Performances.
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More people should listen to Karan Armstrong
Never saw her in anything, only on You Tube videos and in a few recordings.
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From the House of the Dead
Karina Canellakis conducts Janácek's final opera live from Amsterdam.
Alcina
The opening night of a new production live from the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma.
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This week, Chris’s Cache offers a performance of Follies from 2007 featuring Lucine Amara as a rarely richly sung Heidi alongside Donna Murphy and Victoria Clark.
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For me, Renée Doria epitomizes the best of French style – pointed diction, a slightly lemon-y timbre that cuts through any cloying sentimentality…..love her!
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Pick a little, talk a little
Following the successful launch of the new regular feature The Talk of the Town in January, the team at the box is inviting contributions for a new quarter of operatic potpourri.
Huw Montague Rendall’s new release Contemplation has been spinning in both my car and home players repeatedly for months now.
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… as Minnie in La fanciulla del west
This performance of Mahler’s Symphony N°8 at the Bozar in Brussels will probably be my last ever Mahler concert.
Christina Nilsson‘s debut enlivens the Met’s new Aïda.
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Karen Slack is downright magisterial in her recital African Queens.
Corinne Winters sings the title role in Janácek‘s opera live from Munich.
A stylish and funny Così fan tutte at LA Opera is a pretty glam affair, according to Patrick Mack.
She demonstrated impressive artistry in repertoire that ranged from Spanish music to Mozart and Verdi. I only saw her twice at the Met in Mozart but they were both memorable performances.
The conclusion of the Metropolitan Opera’s annual competition, live from New York
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parterre‘s protean publisher and historical singing authority Nick Scholl sits down with the Bel Canto Boot Camp team to discuss the old school and what makes for good filth
A drama/trauma-tic soprano in the model of Gencer and Olivero, Martile Rowland sang a brilliant Elisabetta in Roberto Devereux (a last minute replacement for Zampieri, another controversial pick) at a concert, did half a Puritani at the Met, and sang the other “Gencer” roles such as Paolina in I Martiri, the title roles in Caterina Cornaro and Linda di Chamounix, and then retired to teach in the midwest somewhere(?).
But two weeks remain for readers to stoke the fires of daily discussion over at The Talk of the Town!
A live broadcast from New York – and Lise Davidsen‘s final broadcast before her maternity leave!
Federica Lombardi is Norma in a performance recorded in Vienna last month.
