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Born on this day in 1927 soprano Régine Crespin.
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Believe it or not, it’s the final Nozze of the Met’s 2019-2020 season.
By La Cieca
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Opera, Food and Wine in Northern Italy – May 2020
The highlights of this nine-day, ten-person tour will be Montemezzi’s L’amore dei tre re at La Scala in a new production by Spanish director Àlex Ollé, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale in Turin and Weill’s Mahagonny in Reggio Emilia, plus the Pavarotti Museum in Modena. Visit: Rick Perdian-Travel & Music.
Dolly definitely did not have me at Hello!
By David Fox
Born on this day in 1930 soprano and film “ghost” singer Marni Nixon.
The actress and songstress is 67 today! Born on this day in 1907 librettist and poet W H Auden.
“American soprano Renée Fleming, one of the most beloved and celebrated singers of our time, is donating her personal archives to Juilliard, her alma mater.”
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Opera Lafayette Presents a Unique ‘Leonore’
Beethoven’s Leonore, the centerpiece of Opera Lafayette’s 25th-anniversary season, will be heard in a way no one has had the opportunity to imagine it since 1805. Conductor and musicologist Will Crutchfield has completed a score based on Beethoven’s extensive sketches for this performance. Monday, March 2.
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Over the past two decades, the understatedly beguiling Sasha Cooke has inched chronologically inwards in her subtle conquest of swathes of mezzo concert repertoire.
By Harry Rose
Sunday is Handel’s 335th birthday, an event Trove Thursday celebrates with Rodelinda, Regina de’Longobardi, one of the composer’s most popular works.
On this day in 1981 the Metropolitan Opera premiered triple bill of Satie’s Parade, Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias and Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges.
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By an astounding coincidence, on Monday night Handel’s third and fourth extant operas were being performed simultaneously across the street from each other at Lincoln Center.
Donizetti’s La Favorite remains a relative rarity in the repertoire, especially in the original French version.
By David Fox
On this day in 1967 soprano Lucia Popp made her Met debut as the Queen of the Night.
Born on this day in 1926 mezzo-soprano Rita Gorr.
The success of Porgy and Bess at the Met forced bass-baritone Eric Owens, the newly installed director of vocal studies at the Curtis Institute, to cancel a long-planned afternoon recital at the school on February 16.
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Opera Gems: The Art of Dramatic Voices
Presented by Grandi Voci Concerts, Matthew Laifer Artists Management, Jason Tramm, MidAtlantic Philharmonic Orchestra. Saturday, February 22 at 8 p.m. at Merkin Hall, located at 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY. More information.
