San Francisco Opera continues its competition with Lyric Opera of Chicago for the title of “World’s Dullest Opera Company” with the its announcement of the mostly lackluster 2019-2020 season.
Born on this day in 1897 soprano Rosa Ponselle. Read more »
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Please be advised: article contains no brickbats besides “a guy I sat next to once said a soprano was overweight.”
Claudio Abbado passed away on the 20th of January five years ago, just months before I began my Ph.D.
Born on this day in 1865 cabaret singer and actress of the Belle Époque Yvette Guilbert.
Join le tout Allemonde for this afternoon’s broadcast of Debussy’s apotheosis of evanescence.
The Met is offering federal employees affected by the ongoing government shutdown free tickets.
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