Risorgimental
December at Chris’s Cache kicks off with two of Verdi’s lesser-known operas: La Battaglia di Legnano and I Due Foscari.
December at Chris’s Cache kicks off with two of Verdi’s lesser-known operas: La Battaglia di Legnano and I Due Foscari.
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.
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.
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The parterre box team salutes WindyCityOperaman for his years of dedicated daily postings… and turns to you to keep the conversation going!
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.
On this day in 1948 Verdi‘s Otello was the first opera to be telecast from the Metropolitan Opera.
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
Take two – a live broadcast of the strike delayed-opening night of the 2024-25 season from Venice
Christopher Corwin reviews Pablo Larraín‘s Maria
Montagu James reviews the US tour of the Kirill Petrenko-led Berlin Philharmonic
War! Heroism! Mysterious strangers! Attempted suicide! Steadfast love! Così fan tutte, as staged November 18-21 at Juilliard Opera, had… none of these things.