C’est une vraie voix
Don Carlos returns to the Opéra National de Paris and it’s an unusually happy occasion
Dies magna et amara valde
parterre box offers a Good Friday pick-me-up: elusive chanteuse Juliana Grigoryan in perhaps her most canceled role, the soprano soloist in Verdi’s Requiem
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It may be blasphemy to admit—particularly this month—but usually I can either take or leave Donizetti’s serious operas. However, I love the composer in comic mode, so Chris’s Cache runs with that sentiment in offering three recordings of Don Pasquale.
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A favorite Donizetti performance from Angela Meade
For me, Donizetti’s operas are all about the mad scenes.
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L’assedio di Corinto
A broadcast from 1975 celebrates 50 years since the Met debut of Beverly Sills
Arabella
A live broadcast of a most Viennese opera from Vienna itself
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Late Callas singing Maria from “Figlia del Reggimento” a role she wisely never attempted on stage.
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Who knew that rehearing a performance you believed had become nothing more than a cherished memory would have such healing properties during a time of bereavement?
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Jessica Pratt sings the title role in a live broadcast from Trieste
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The ham in this pandemic-era let’s-put-on-a-show Elisir duet (from the Met at Home broadcast) may make the performance more sooey than sui generis. But I find it irresistible.
Missy Mazzoli has established herself as one of contemporary opera’s most skilled and subtle architects of emotional response, and her latest, The Listeners—now at the Lyric Opera of Chicago—is no exception.
Well, it’s a clip from Mary Zimmermann‘s production of Lucia di Lammermoor… wait, wait, come back!
The nail-biting adventures of Voltaire’s titular hero Candide are hardly more circuitous than those faced by Leonard Bernstein’s 1956 Broadway musical adaptation.
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The German Heldentenor died yesterday at his home in Austria.
Does anyone remember Beverly Sills as the three Donizetti queens at NYCO? This made a huge impression on me.
Madison Schindele on loving Die Frau ohne Schatten as a “woman of childbearing age”
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The Met’s 2022 Lucia was divisive, to say the least, but it was the first time Lucia truly resonated with me.
Rachel Willis-Sorensen sings the title role for the first time in a live performance from Berlin.
In terms of elegance and beauty of execution, Renato Bruson is in a class by himself among Donizetti baritones.
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Pick a little, talk a little
Following the successful launch of the new regular feature The Talk of the Town in January, the team at the box is inviting contributions for a new quarter of operatic potpourri.
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