Risorgimental
December at Chris’s Cache kicks off with two of Verdi’s lesser-known operas: La Battaglia di Legnano and I Due Foscari.
Other desert settees
Washington Concert Opera returned on November 24th for its first show of the 2024-2025 season with a production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, another (relative) rarity from the composer following last year’s season-closing presentation of La rondine.
Trick mirror
A recent conversation with a friend who has loved Die Frau ohne Schatten for twice as long as I have been alive revealed that we both had some unresolved questions about the plot.
Broadcasts
Il trovatore
A live broadcast from New York
Le Villi
A performance from Munich recorded last month
Die Frau ohne Schatten
A live broadcast from New York
On This Day
Die den Schläfern Schlimmes ahnt
Happy 86th birthday mezzo-soprano Yvonne Minton
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Christina Colanduoni on Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Le Nozze di Figaro
Chris’s Cache ends the month with another “fun” opera but one even rarer than last week’s Rossini: Der Wildschütz by Albert Lortzing.
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On this day in 1948 Verdi‘s Otello was the first opera to be telecast from the Metropolitan Opera.
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The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s program of works by Mozart and Kevin Puts, a composer championed by star Renée Fleming, was one of musical and artistic contrasts.
On this day in 1843 Michael Balfe’s The Bohemian Girl premiered in London
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War! Heroism! Mysterious strangers! Attempted suicide! Steadfast love! Così fan tutte, as staged November 18-21 at Juilliard Opera, had… none of these things.
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