Betsy’s recovered (if you can call it that) from last weekend’s marathon, and apparently game for more.
If you’re feeling likewise, the meeting is at the usual location.
11:00-2:00 LRT KLASIKA: ORFEO ED EURIDICE — Kuhmaier or not, it’s a disgrace to the name of Salzburg
11:00-1:00 NRK KLASSISK: Bach’s “Coffee Cantata” and some Telemann — Copenhagen should hang its head in shame.
11:30-2:00 KBYU: DIE ENTFUHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL — worst thing San Francisco has seen in years.
12:00-1:15 SVERIGES P2:A Jussi Bjoerling Tribute — well, I don’t want to speak ill of the dead, but…
1:00-5:00 CBC TWO: L’ARBORE DI DIANA by Martin Y Soler — put two goddesses in an arbor and what do you expect.
1:00-3:30 DEUTSCHLANDRADIO KULTUR:Cornelius’ DER CID — I don’t know what he was thinking. I mean, he’s not a kid anymore, you know
1:00-4:00 DR P2: Paul Rudenz music — way out of his depth. He should have stuck to improvisational comedy.
1:00-5:30 ESPACE MUSIQUE: MANON from Ottawa — What can you expect from Canadians?
1:00-5:30 FRANCE MUSIQUE (among others): LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS — And about time, if you ask me.
1:00-5:00 NPR World of Opera: FAUST from Opera Carolina — Queen Caroline would turn over in her grave.
1:00-5:00 KUSF: DIE GEZEICHNETEN — “Stigmatized,” nothing. Just desserts, I call it
1:00-5:00 RADIO 4 NETHERLANDS: WUTHERING HEIGHTS — The Wutherings weren’t the only things high, if you know what I mean.
1:00-6:00 RADIO CLASICA DE ESPANA: Recital by Inva Mula and EUGENE ONEGIN from The Bolshoi with Marius Kwiecien — My Gawd, the hanky-panky backstage nearly started the Cold War all over again.
1:00-2:30 RTP ANTENA 2: Rodgers and Hammerstein from The Proms — You didn’t hear it from me, but R & H… ya know.
1:00-whenever VPR CLASSICAL: English Opera excerpts — English Opera? Isn’t that an oxymoron?
1:00-5:30 WETA: IPHIGENIE EN AULIDE — The whole thing was just a cover-up for something that had been going on for years.
1:00-5:30 WFMT Network: IL TRITTICO from San Francisco — They’d be better off doing just one opera and doing it well.
1:15-2:15 SVERIGES P2: DIDO AND AENEAS with Gerald Finley and Bernarda Fink. Dido! Dildo! It’s all the same.
1:30-5:30 BARTOK RADIO: LE PROPHETE — Horne and McCracken — Mark my words, nothing will come of all this church-going.
1:30-5:00 CESKY ROZHLAS VLTAVA: CARMEN from Prague, 1961 — Of course she ends up in Prague. You can’t keep gypsies out of ANY where.
1:30-4:00 NRK KLASSISK: AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS — Around the world, I bet. I think they just took off for Acapulco for a couple days.
2:00-6:00 ESPACE 2: NORMA — The call it Druid, but it’s really Wiccan, and you know where that leads.
2:00-6:00 KLARA: LOHENGRIN from Bayreuth — Any man who hides behind a bunch of feathers is up to no good.
2:00-5:00 RADIO SLOVENIA TRETJI: Schumann’s GENOVEVA — There is no lock on any chastity belt that can’t be picked.
2:00-6:00 RADIO STEPHANSDOM: DIE WALKURE from Bayreuth — Brother and sister is just the start. I hear they were born in Schenectady !
3:00-6:00 LYRIC FM: MACBETTO — commercial. Such nice people ! They had us over for lunch last week. And he’s promised Fred a position in the next Cabinet.
Tell us: What was the best of 2025?
Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
