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Beverly Sills‘ one and only Met telecast: Don Pasquale in the company of Alfredo Kraus, Håkan Hagegård and Gabriel Bacquier. Transmitted live on January 11, 1979.
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Soprano Patricia Racette stars in director Michael Cavanagh’s haunting vision of this uniquely American tragedy, with conducting from Karen Kamensek.
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Mozart and Friends
little OPERA theatre of ny’s concert spotlights several arias from their postponed production of Mozart’s The Shepherd King, with additional music by Rameau, Handel, and Chevalier de Saint-Georges. Thursday July 9 at 7:30 p.m., streamed live from St John’s in the Village. Read more…
As an alternative to the Met’s abysmal production, let’s watch Peter Mattei and Malin Byström star in a socially distanced studio performance from 2020.
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The “unjustly neglected late opera by Richard Strauss” (but aren’t they all?) as performed by the American Symphony Orchestra.
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Happy 73rd birthday to Broadway diva Betty Buckley.
Starring Anita Hartig, Anita Rachvelishvili, Aleksandrs Antonenko and Ildar Abdrazakov; conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado. Transmitted live on November 1, 2014.
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Faithful Friday with Angel Blue
Need an uplift? Every Friday Angel Blue broadcasts a fun chat with a special guest to help people ‘keep the faith’, believe in themselves, and support each other through tough times. Tune in to Angel’s Facebook page for Faithful Friday with Angel Blue. Every Friday at 12:00 p.m. ET.
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“Echoing the twilight and melancholy pages of the score, director Tobias Kratzer draws on gothic and contemporary imagery from film and television.”
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With the Fourth of July approaching, Trove Thursday turns to a quintessentially American opera with the broadcast of the world premiere—some 60 years after its composition—of Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha with Alpha Floyd, Seth McCoy and Simon Estes conducted by Robert Shaw.
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Beth Morrison Projects presents Opera of the Week
Beth Morrison Projects is keeping the work of our artists out in the world by offering an “Opera of the Week” which will stream on our homepage, for one week every Thursday at noon. Learn more.
On this day in 1929 impresario Florenz Ziegfeld presented a youngster named Ruby Keeler in the title role of the Gershwins’ musical Show Girl.
Starring Andrey Popov, Alexander Lewis and Paulo Szot; conducted by Pavel Smelkov. Transmitted live on October 26, 2013.
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Opening tonight at the Teatro Real in Madrid, a staged but socially distanced version of La traviata.
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Lisette Oropesa, Javier Camarena and Artur Rucinski star in this performance from the Teatro Real, Madrid.
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June on parterre box was a month of Egyptian sun gods and some very enthusiastic video watching.
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Born on this day in 1892 author James M. Cain.
Starring Hildegard Behrens, Jessye Norman, Christa Ludwig, Gary Lakes, James Morris and Kurt Moll; conducted by James Levine. From April 8, 1989 at the Metropolitan Opera.
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This video recording of Il trovatore is sensational for all the right and wrong reasons simultaneously.
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2020 New York Virtual Opera Fest
New York Opera Alliance (NYOA) proudly presents the 2020 New York Virtual Opera Fest. The festival showcases the breadth and diversity of opera in NYC, and many events are free. All events are produced by participant companies of NYOA in partnership with OPERA America. Read more.
