Unnecessary performance problems
Patrick Mack on the iconic Ethan Mordden‘s career and his first book on opera in 30 years – and it appears that time has mostly stopped in the Mordden manse.
Thoughts on Il trovatore: the opera
When asked to express some “thoughts” here about Verdi’s Il trovatore, my immediate thought was “hmm… not a lot to think about there.”
Spain and neutered
Ainadamar never quite found its identity between the two poles of conceptual and concrete.
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Tosca
Daniel Harding conducts Eleonora Burrato, Jonathan Tetelman, and Ludovic Tézier live from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in this most Roman of operas
Giulio Cesare
A performance recorded last fall at the Rome Opera
On This Day
Hungarian rhapsode
Born on this day in 1912 conductor Georg Solti
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Marco Armiliato conducts Benjamin Bernheim, Erin Morley, Pretty Yende, Clémentine Margaine, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, and Christian Van Horn in a live broadcast from New York
Double double, toil and trouble, y’all, and happy spooky season from Slaylem. (It’s like Salem, but fun.)
On this day in 1991 soprano Deborah Voigt made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Amelia
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Karim Sulayman’s intentions are to demonstrate links and roots, in themes musical and poetic, crossing every boundary of culture, religion, nationality, genre.
Born on this day in 1854 writer Oscar Wilde
Miguel Harth-Bedoya leads Angel Blue, Elena Villalón, Daniela Mack, and Alfredo Tejada in the Metropolitan Opera premiere of Osvaldo Golijov and David Henry Hwang‘s opera
Judith Malafronte sits down with bass David Leigh who debuts as Rocco in Washington National Opera’s production of Fidelio next week
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Lately I’ve been preoccupied with Verdi and Il trovatore in particular anticipating the opera’s return to the Met later this month for the first time since 2018, this unusual deep-dive Chris’s Cache (on my birthday) is the result.
On this day in 1965 soprano Renata Scotto made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Cio-Cio San
David Bates conducts a live performance featuring Attilio Glaser, Emily Sierra, Jeanine De Bique, Elena Tsallagova, and Ya-Chung Huang from Vienna’s Theater an der Wien
