The Metropolitan Opera premiere of Nico Muhly‘s Marnie graces tonight’s free streaming broadcast beginning at 7:55 PM, and as usual parterre box is happy to serve as the cher public’s psychiatrist to hear discussion and comments. Read more »
At last weekend’s Opus Klassik Awards, Diana Damrau sings ABBA (with Juan Diego Flòrez among the backup artists.) Read more »
This riotous opera transports the Oedipus tale to an apocalyptic 1980s London, plagued by police violence, racism, and socioeconomic decay. Intrepid composer Mark-Anthony Turnage’s (Anna Nicole) 1988 breakthrough brilliantly combines cockney-accented profanity and irreverent drama with an audacious score and outstanding four-person cast. Eddy (tenor Alex Otterburn), our modern-day Oedipus, dreams of a better life. After hearing a fortune teller’s disturbing prediction, he resolves at all costs to avoid shagging his own mum (soprano Susan Bullock) and inadvertently killing his father (tenor Andrew Shore). But he is unable to outrun fate, landing in the prophetically maternal arms of an East End café manager (mezzo soprano Allison Cook). Thirty years later, Greek still resonates, offering an incisive, brash contemporary statement on accountability and family. Read more »
With the orchestra strike happily settled, Lyric Opera of Chicago resumed its season on Wednesday evening with the new-to-Chicago production of Puccini’s perennial audience pleaser La bohème. It was a spectacularly sung, dramatically riveting evening surrounded by a production by Richard Jones that only really worked for one of the opera’s four acts. Read more »
On this day in 1994 baritone Bryn Terfel made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Figaro.
Beautiful singing, thoughtful staging, lovely melodies… a perfect escape from daily life.
“Trove Thursday” presents Karl Goldmark’s Die Königin von Saba in a broadcast with Anja Silja, Sabine Hass, Siegfried Jerusalem and Wolfgang Brendel conducted by Julius Rudel.
Born on this day in 1898 actress and singer Lotte Lenya.
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