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Nicola Alaimo, Juan Diego Flórez and Marina Rebeka star in a production from the Pesaro Rossini Festival in 2013.
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Anna Netrebko and Anita Rachvelishvili are rival princesses in the Met’s Live in HD.
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A rare revival of Rimsky-Korsakov’s fanciful opera from La Monnaie.
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On this day in 1989 soprano Sumi Jo made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Gilda.
Bellini’s bel canto tragedy starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Joyce DiDonato, Joseph Calleja and Matthew Rose, conducted by Carlo Rizzi.
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Happy 90th birthday soprano Mary Costa.
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Verdi’s melodrama stars Anna Netrebko, Joseph Calleja, Zeljko Lucic and René Pape, conducted by Fabio Luisi.
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Like many artistic homosexuals, I’ve been through an Altman phase, a Cher phase, a Sandy Dennis phase and a Karen Black phase, so you needn’t explain yourself to me.
The Rossini dramma buffo performed at La Scala features Rosa Feola as Donna Fiorilla.
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On this day in 1859 Meyerbeer’s Le pardon de Ploërmel premiered in Paris.
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That most American of all operas, as performed in February by the Metropolitan Museum in collaboration with The Juilliard School and the New York Philharmonic.
By La Cieca
Opera in Exile veers off on a temporary tangent today, programming two fringe/niche works.
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On this day in 1975 soprano Magda Olivero made her legendary Metropolitan Opera debut as Tosca.
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Intrigue in the Spanish court with Marina Poplavskaya, Roberto Alagna, Simon Keenlyside and Ferruccio Furlanetto, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
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Who could doubt that Leontyne Price contains multitudes?
By David Fox
What could be more appropriate for Opera in Exile than a production that never happened?
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